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Autobiography vs Autohagiography - What's the difference?

autobiography | autohagiography |

As nouns the difference between autobiography and autohagiography

is that autobiography is a self-written biography; the story of one's own life while autohagiography is an autobiography of a saint.

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

    autohagiography

    English

    Noun

    (autohagiographies)
  • An autobiography of a saint.
  • (pejorative) An autobiography that flatters the subject.