dramedy

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Blend of drama +‎ comedy.

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dramedy (countable and uncountable, plural dramedies)

  1. (uncountable) A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.
  2. (countable) A film or television programme belonging to this genre.
    • 2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times[1]:
      ”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.

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