memoiric

English

Etymology

From memoir +‎ -ic.

Adjective

memoiric (comparative more memoiric, superlative most memoiric)

1. Of or pertaining to anecdotes based on one's own life; autobiographical.
   • 2003, Gary Kern, A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror, page 104:

     This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time. Mystifying, because all references to it found in the memoiric literature are contradictory; likewise, because rumors of a Reichswehr- Red generals conspiracy were floating about simultaneously, possibly as a part of a plot to frame the Red generals with Nazi forgeries, two developments which have their own contradictory literature.

   • 2013, James Lough, This Ain't No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995, page 262:

     The Chelsea's basement is also the setting for the climactic scene in Dee Dee Ramone's 2001 novel Chelsea Horror Hotel, a mix of factually-based memoiric anecdotes, paranoid hallucinations and revenge fantasies.

   • 2019, Gil Richard Musolf, Conflict and Forced Migration:

     If the genre of autobiographic or memoiric writing is beset by a certain obsession with veracity, subjects of Refugee and Forced Migration experience know too well a further heightened and acute high-stakes game of authentication.

Usage notes

This term is used more generally than the synonym autobiographical, which tends to refer to a part of a full autobiography.