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docusoap

noun

Etymology

Blend of documentary + soap (for soap opera); equivalent to docu + soap.

  1. derived from *seyb-✻
  2. inherited from *saipǭ✻
  3. inherited from *saipā✻
  4. inherited from sāpe — “soap, salve”
  5. inherited from sope
  6. compounded as docusoap — “documentary + soap”

Definitions

  1. A form of reality television in the style of a documentary in which an apparent plot is…

    A form of reality television in the style of a documentary in which an apparent plot is constructed by intention or editing in order to make programmes in this genre resemble soap operas.

    • The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land.
    • Nigel [Farrell] and Paul Sommers created the docusoap genre of programmes almost 20 years ago, applying the cliffhanger endings and multi-character storylines of soap operas to series such as The Village and Country House.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for docusoap. 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