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antibiography

antibiography noun: the history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.

Noun

antibiography (plural antibiographies)

  1. The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.
    • Doctor Zhivago invokes two kinds of images of space and time: those of the biographical novel, with its inside spaces of family stability, and those of the road, the quest - except that here we find a kind of antibiography and anti-quest.1995, Edith W. Clowes, Doctor Zhivago: A Critical Companion, →ISBN, page 28
    • As are all of us, if that's what you are trying to find out with your little 'antibiography,' shall we say.2011, Noah Boyd, Last Chance To Die, →ISBN, page 305

Examples of antibiography in a sentence

  • The first problem we have to face in any biography (or antibiography) of Paul is that the primary evidence imposes severe limitations on what we can know, as the Introduction explained.2012, J. Albert Harrill, Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in their Roman Context, page 23:
  • The dialectic is also at work within Hogarth's interpretation of his antibiography.2018, N. Katherine Hayles, Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, →ISBN:

Forms of antibiography

pluralantibiographies

Origin of antibiography

From anti- + biography.

Questions about antibiography

What does antibiography mean?
Antibiography means the history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.
How do you use antibiography in a sentence?
The first problem we have to face in any biography (or antibiography) of Paul is that the primary evidence imposes severe limitations on what we can know, as the Introduction explained.
What part of speech is antibiography?
Antibiography is a noun.
What is the plural of antibiography?
The plural of antibiography is antibiographies.

Words near antibiography in the dictionary

  1. antibiofoulants
  2. antibiofouling
  3. antibiogram
  4. antibiograms
  5. antibiographies
  6. antibiography
  7. antibiological
  8. antibiont
  9. antibionts
  10. antibioprophylaxis
  11. antibioresistance

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