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English
Etymology
From semi- + fictional.
Adjective
semifictional (not comparable)
- Partially but not entirely fictional
2007 March 4, Joe Klein, “Nam and Pop”, in New York Times:As emotionally powerful as this is, there is a slight disconnect here: he is describing events in Vietnam that actually happened (stunning, little-remembered details about the American evacuation, including the story of the last two Americans to die, in John Kerry ’s words, “for a mistake”), but the events in Michigan — his father’s drunkenness and isolation, the disintegration of his parents’ marriage — are a semifictional, if plausible, recreation of what Bissell imagines his father to have been like during that time.