docufiction

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der. Proto-Italic *dokeō Latin doceō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Latin documentumbor. French document Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusder. French -aire French documentairebor. English documentary Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction blend English docufiction Blend of documentary + fiction.

  1. derived from ficcionbor
  2. derived from *deḱ-der

Definitions

  1. A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.

    • The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for docufiction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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