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Documentary vs Fiction - What's the difference?

documentary | fiction | Antonyms |

Fiction is a antonym of documentary.



As nouns the difference between documentary and fiction

is that documentary is a film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner while fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

As an adjective documentary

is of, related to, or based on documents.

documentary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, related to, or based on documents.
  • which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
  • presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
  • Noun

    (wikipedia documentary) (documentaries)
  • A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
  • Antonyms

    * fiction

    Derived terms

    * fuckumentary * mockumentary * schlockumentary * shockumentary * stalkumentary

    Anagrams

    *

    fiction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
    I am a great reader of fiction .
  • (uncountable) Invention.
  • The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .

    Synonyms

    * fabrication * figment

    Antonyms

    * documentary * fact * non-fiction

    Derived terms

    * non-fiction * science fiction * speculative fiction * fiction section