What is another word for biographic?

Pronunciation: [bˌa͡ɪəɡɹˈafɪk] (IPA)

The term "biographic" refers to anything that is related to a person's life story or biography. Synonyms for this term include biographical, auto/biographical, memoiristic, life-writing, and hagiographic (if the focus is on someone's heroic or saintly qualities). Other related terms include autobiographical (if the subject of the biography is the writer themselves), historiographical (if the focus is on the history of the writing of the biography), and biohistory (if the focus is on the historical context in which the person lived). Regardless of the specific term used, all of these synonyms refer to the study of a person's life and the events that shaped it.

What are the hypernyms for Biographic?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Biographic

In a work like this the essence of its history is biographic, and Doctor Peter has made his work to consist chiefly of biographical sketches of those who made Transylvania University what it was.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
The biographic interest of all these productions is the light which they throw on the transformation which Goethe had undergone during his residence in Leipzig.
"The Youth of Goethe"
Peter Hume Brown
In a set of volumes, entitled biographic Clinics, Dr. George M. Gould of Philadelphia contended that the ill health of a number of men and women of genius of the nineteenth century was due to unconnected eye troubles.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.

Famous quotes with Biographic

  • In American literature she will remain a remarkable biographic phenomenon, while the tragic death of this Lycidas of women, a most painful personal story of shipwreck, was intensified by so many melancholy incidents that whoever, long years hence, may read them, will wonder how the gods could have been so pitiless, and why the life of new happiness and larger intellectual achievement which was before her should so suddenly have ended upon that savage and inhospitable shore.
    Margaret Fuller
  • Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.
    Sidney Lee

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