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Assassination vs Autobiography - What's the difference?

assassination | autobiography |

As nouns the difference between assassination and autobiography

is that assassination is killing or murder for political reasons while autobiography is a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

assassination

English

(wikipedia assassination)

Noun

(en noun)
  • killing or murder for political reasons
    • The assassination of the king occurred at night.

    Related terms

    * assassin * royal assassin

    See also

    * targeted killing

    autobiography

    English

    (wikipedia autobiography)

    Noun

  • A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
  • * (Samuel Clemens)
    • Autobiography
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI , passage=Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography .}}

    Synonyms

    * memoir

    Antonyms

    * heterobiography

    Derived terms

    * autobiographical, autobiographically

    Related terms

    * biography