life-telling
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.88 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human."
- "Stephen Maddison has argued that this emergent tradition of 'gay life-telling' in lesbian gay and queer sub-cultural life is particularly significant, as in the development of second-wave feminism, because it has helped destabilise 'the master-narrative of sexuality which inscribes silence as naturalized heterosexuality...'"
- "Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era."