variants:
or less commonly longform
Definition of long-form
: notably long in form in comparison to what is common or typical for works or content of a particular category
Making Michael Jackson's Thriller … spawned the long-form music video.— Paul Taublieb His compositions are long-form; by a comparative ratio to most piano players, there's not much soloing. Like good long-form structures, they don't always strike you as such; the written parts ease into solos without giving notice.— Ben Ratliff especially, journalism : covering a subject at much greater length and in much greater depth than a standard news article Long-form and investigative stories were replaced by short, searchable bursts of information.— Adam Weinstein Mine was a world made new by memoir and biography, investigative journalism and longform essay. — E. Ce Miller
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The first known use of long-form was in 1961
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