Home › Words › D › docusoapdocusoapdocusoap means A form of reality television in the style of a documentary in which an apparent plot is constructed by intention or editing in order to make programmes in this genre resemble soap operas.EtymologyBlend of documentary + soap (for soap opera); equivalent to docu + soap.nounA form of reality television in the style of a documentary in which an apparent plot is constructed by intention or editing in order to make programmes in this genre resemble soap operas.e.g.“The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land.” — 2010 October 21, Troy Patterson, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, in Slate:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.docufantasy 66% match — A fictional programme presented as a documentary. vs docusoap →docuseries 65% match — A documentary, or a collection of documentaries, presented as a series. vs docusoap →docucomedy 64% match — A comedy presented as though it were a documentary. vs docusoap →docudrama 61% match — A type of drama (a film, play, television show, etc.) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events. vs docusoap →doccie 60% match — A documentary. vs docusoap →docudramatization 60% match — The process of adapting something into a docudrama. vs docusoap →docutainment 59% match — infotainment vs docusoap →dramality 59% match — A genre of television programming that blends reality TV with elements of drama. vs docusoap →