factiiusly.html - noun
(Lifestyle and Leisure) A blend of fact and fiction, especially when used as a literary genre , in film-making, etc.; documentary fiction. Also, a book, film, etc. that uses this technique. Etymology: Formed by telescoping the words fact and fiction to make a blend. History and Usage: The word was invented in the late sixties, when there was a fashion for novels based on real or historical events. In the eighties, the term was also applied to the dramatized television documentaries sometimes called docudramas or drama-docs (see doc docu-). The adjective used to describe a work of this kind is factional or factionalized; the process of combining fact and fiction into a narrative is factionalization. His Merseyside is vivid enough, every bit as 'real' as those fictionalised documentaries we are learning to call 'faction'. Listener 30 June 1983, p.
16 Factional drama will be discussed in detail at a BBC seminar. The Times 13 July 1988, p.
1 Humphrey's... No Resting Place...offers a factionalised account of Indian history. Literary Review Aug. 1989, p. 14

factiiusly.html - n.
Chem. a rubber-like substance obtained by vulcanizing unsaturated vegetable oils. [G Faktis f. L facticius FACTITIOUS]

factiiusly.html - n.
1 a small organized dissentient group within a larger one, esp. in politics.
2 a state of dissension within an organization. [F f. L factio -onis f. facere fact- do, make]

factiiusly.html - n.
a book, film, etc., using real events as a basis for a fictional narrative or dramatization. [blend of FACT and FICTION]

factiiusly.html - adj.
1 of or characterized by faction.
2 belonging to a faction.

factionalism n. factionalize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). factionally adv. [FACTION(1)]

factiiusly.html - adj.
of, characterized by, or inclined to faction.

factiously adv. factiousness n.