Definition of "fictionalization" [fictionalization]

• The act of fictionalizing or something fictionalized (noun)

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• "What, I asked Kenny, could this movie - an admitted "fictionalization" of the story behind the interviews themselves which have been and still are available for public consumption - add to the sad saga of a man dragged through the liberal wringer for the past 30 years."
• ""The Storm at the Door" Random House, 342 pages, $25 is Stefan Merrill Block's fictionalization of what might have happened in his grandparents' lives during the months that followed."
• "The performer, now onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in "Krapp's Last Tape," will participate in a Q&A following the Tuesday screening of "Scandal" 1989, a fictionalization of the 1963 Profumo affair sex scandal."