documentary

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Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document +‎ -ary.

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Adjective

documentary (not comparable)

  1. Of, related to, or based on documents.
  2. Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
  3. (of a film, book, etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
    a documentary film

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Noun

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documentary (countable and uncountable, plural documentaries)

  1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
  2. (uncountable) Such works collectively, as a genre.
    • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 61:
      Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.

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