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Biography vs Aretalogy - What's the difference?

biography | aretalogy |

As nouns the difference between biography and aretalogy

is that biography is a person's life story, especially one published while aretalogy is a form of sacred biography in which a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.

As a verb biography

is to write a biography of.

biography

English

Noun

(biographies)
  • A person's life story, especially one published.
    • There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

    Derived terms

    * autobiography * heterobiography * psychobiography

    Related terms

    * biographer * biographical * biographism * hagiography * pathography

    Verb

  • To write a biography of.

    • Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -graphy

    aretalogy

    English

    (wikipedia aretalogy)

    Noun

    (aretalogies)
  • A form of sacred biography in which a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.

    • Related terms

    * aretological