documentary
adjEtymology
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 From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.
- derived from documentum
Definitions
Of, related to, or based on documents.
Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
- a documentary film
- Just as there is a tradition of history painting, so there is one of history photographs — which of course are not documentary. They're posed as the world was supposed to be.
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A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or…
A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
- Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.
Such works collectively, as a genre.
- Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.
The neighborhood
- antonymfiction
- neighborcinéma vérité
Derived
documentarily, documentariness, documentary hypothesis, nondocumentary, predocumentary, quasidocumentary, undocumentary, antidocumentary, doco, docucomedy, docudrama, docufantasy, docufiction, docufilm, documedia, documemoir, documentarian, documentarist, documentarylike, documercial, docuseries, docusoap, docutainment, drama documentary, dramamentary, false documentary, fictional documentary, fuckumentary, microdocumentary, minidocumentary, mockumentary, photodocumentary, pseudodocumentary, rockumentary, schlockumentary, semidocumentary, shockumentary, soapumentary, stalkumentary, vlogumentary · +1 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at documentary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at documentary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at documentary
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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