What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Documentary vs Quasidocumentary - What's the difference?

documentary | quasidocumentary |

As adjectives the difference between documentary and quasidocumentary

is that documentary is of, related to, or based on documents while quasidocumentary is somewhat or partially documentary.

As a noun documentary

is a film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

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

    Related terms

    * docudrama

    Anagrams

    *

    quasidocumentary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Somewhat or partially documentary.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 31, author=Manohla Dargis, title=Voice, Eyes and Camera of Katrina Survivors, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Shot in the familiar quasidocumentary , tag-along style, “Foster Child” at first seems too narrowly focused on Thelma’s personal tribulations but eventually throws open a window onto a world in which the only available remedy to the combination of poverty and religion rests in the bank accounts of childless foreigners. }}