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docu-fiction

docu-fiction is the alternative form of docufiction.

Meaning of docufiction

Noun

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

  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 […]1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of docu-fiction

pluraldocu-fictions

Questions about docu-fiction

What is docu-fiction the alternative form of?
Docu-fiction is the alternative form of docufiction.

Words near docu-fiction in the dictionary

  1. doctype
  2. doctypes
  3. docu
  4. docu-drama
  5. docu-dramas
  6. docu-fiction
  7. docu-fictions
  8. docu-soap
  9. docucam
  10. docucams
  11. docucomedies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: docu-fiction (page history and authors); docufiction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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