Entertaiment is a form of recreation which involves the consumption of euphoric substances that transform one’s state into another, where everything else disappears. The word “entertainment” comes from the medieval Latin intertenere, which combines the prefix inter, meaning “inside,” and the suffix tenere, derived from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to hold.
According to Oliver and Barstsch (2010) entertainment can be understood as an activity that is objectively defined, involves communication between text and audience from external stimulus, offers pleasure, requires the existence of an audience, and occurs in a passive form. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘Entertainment.’ Send us feedback.