autofiction

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noun

A blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.

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faction
OriginFrench autofiction ← Latin fictiōnem ← Proto-Italic *fingō →
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Meanings

nounautofiction (countable and uncountable, plural autofictions)

plural autofictions

  1. countableuncountableA blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.
    1 more example

    On the other hand, autofiction has afforded many writers a means to deal with the self in a way that straddles the genres of classic literature and goes beyond its culturally determined norms. Autofiction reveals existential motives for writing, raising them to the status of components in the autobiographical debate.

    2019, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, editor, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 245

    Synonyms: faction

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.

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faction

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tó-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*autós
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
  5. Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
  6. Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
  7. Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
  8. Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
  9. Frenchauto-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
  11. Ancient Greekβίος (bíos)
  12. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  13. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  14. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  15. Ancient Greekγραφή (graphḗ)
  16. Ancient Greekβιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)
  17. Latinbiographia
  18. Frenchbiographie
  19. Frenchautobiographie
  20. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
  22. Proto-Italic*θingō
  23. Proto-Italic*fingō
  24. Latinfingō
  25. Latinfictiōnem
  26. Frenchfiction
  27. Frenchautofiction
  28. Englishautofiction

Borrowed from French autofiction, a blend of autobiographie + fiction.

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Translations

Danish autofiktion
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Esperanto aŭtofikcio
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Finnish autofiktio
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French autofiction
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German Autofiktion
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Portuguese autoficção
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Spanish autoficción
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Swedish autofiktion
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Cite this entry
APA

autofiction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autofiction

MLA

“autofiction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autofiction. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autofiction,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autofiction.

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