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docusoap
[ dok-yuh-sohp ]
/ ˈdɒk yəˌsoʊp /
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noun
a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
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Origin of docusoap
First recorded in 1990–95; docu(mentary) + soap (opera)
Words nearby docusoap
documentalist, documentarian, documentary, documentation, document reader, docusoap, docutainment, DOD, do-dad, Dodd, dodder
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How to use docusoap in a sentence
What’s unfortunate is that this novel stuff comes wrapped in the shiny, same-y packaging of a standard docusoap.
Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life Is More Bravo Docusoap Than Real-Life Unorthodox|Judy Berman|July 14, 2021|TimeIt’s hard to imagine many of their reality-TV descendants—some preternaturally vapid and others actively playing up their shallowness, on The Real World, but also in broadcast reality competitions and the docusoaps of Bravo, E!
The Real World Homecoming: New York Is a Bittersweet Glimpse at Everything Reality TV Could've Been|Judy Berman|March 4, 2021|Time
British Dictionary definitions for docusoap
docu-soap
/ (ˈdɒkjʊˌsəʊp) /
noun
a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama
Word Origin for docu-soap
C20: from docu (mentary) + soap (opera)
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