docufiction
nounEtymology
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.
- derived from ficcionbor
- derived from -aire French documentairebor
- derived from *-āsjos Latin -āriusder✻
- derived from document Proto-Indo-European *-yósder
- derived from *deḱ-der✻
Definitions
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA