What does autobiographical mean?
Definitions for autobiographical
ˌɔ təˌbaɪ əˈgræf ɪ kəl, ˌɔ toʊ-au·to·bi·o·graph·i·cal
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Princeton's WordNet
autobiographical, autobiographicadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer
"he seldom suppressed his autobiographical tendencies"
autobiographical, autobiographicadjective
relating to or in the style of an autobiography
"they compiled an autobiographical history of the movement"
Wiktionary
autobiographicaladjective
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
Wikipedia
autobiographical
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.
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autobiographical
Autobiographical refers to instances when a work or piece of content, such as a book, movie, essay, or art, is about the life of the person who created it, their experiences, perspectives, and memories. It is derived from the author's own life and often offers a detailed chronicle or reflection of their personal life events.
Webster Dictionary
Autobiographicaladjective
pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of autobiographical in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of autobiographical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of autobiographical in a Sentence
I think I am the only serious writer who has chosen the autobiographical form to carry my work, my expression.
Having a brother, who is just a year older, who was born deaf, really shaped who I am as a person. So it is a story not just close to my heart, but to my identity, there are many autobiographical themes in the episode regarding the tension between a love of music and loved ones who are deaf -- themes also present in.
It's still autobiographical, but it's more about my childhood, of being on free lunch and food stamps and welfare and just, I guess stories in a funny way about how we've treated poor kids in America, and also some stories of income inequality in my observation and financial insecurity in America and how it relates to my life.
There are two sort of interesting properties about this region, it appears to have a unique contribution to processes that relate to memory, which is that tasks that use autobiographical or self-referential information about ‘me’— past and future— activate this region, but for tasks where you’re doing something you might consider oppositional, not focused on yourself but on external environment, this network gets turned down actively.
When a musical memory is triggered in people with memory disorders, they don't just remember the song, they also usually remember some other autobiographical memories that are connected, they remember at least for a moment where they are and who they are. And that can lead to very good, important moments, sometimes very emotional scenes where there is a reconnect for a moment, a recognition.
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- autobiogràficCatalan, Valencian
- autobiographisch, autobiografischGerman
- membiografiaEsperanto
- autobiográficoSpanish
- omaelämäkerrallinenFinnish
- dírbheathaisnéiseachIrish
- autobiograficoItalian
- автобиографскиMacedonian
- autobiograficznyPolish
- autobiograficRomanian
- автобиографи́ческийRussian
- autobiografskiSerbo-Croatian
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