Synonyms for autobiography
ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ-au·to·bi·og·ra·phy

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1. autobiographynoun

   Synonyms:
   memoir

   Antonyms:
   heterobiography

2. autobiographynoun

   A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

   Synonyms:
   memoir

   Antonyms:
   heterobiography

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1. autobiography

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

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   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, biography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story

Princeton's WordNet

1. autobiographynoun

   a biography of yourself

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1. List of paraphrases for "autobiography":

   memoir

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1. George Orwell:

   An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

2. Philip Roth:

   It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

3. Lady Bird:

   This feels like autobiography, when you live through a book, it almost becomes the landscape of your inner life. ... It becomes part of you, in a profound way.

4. Abraham J. Heschel:

   The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

5. Helen Keller:

   One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.