Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antibiography

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-tibi-og-ra-phy
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.

Example Sentences

"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."
"As are all of us, if that's what you are trying to find out with your little 'antibiography,' shall we say."
"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."
"The dialectic is also at work within Hogarth's interpretation of his antibiography."

Etymology

From anti- + biography.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

antibiographies (plural)

Questions

What does antibiography mean?: The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.
Where does antibiography come from?: From anti- + biography.

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