Articles About “Entertaiment”

Articles about “Entertaiment”

Something entertaining or diverting; an agreeable occupation for the mind; a diversion or amusement: The crossword puzzle is an entertainment for many people.

According to Bates and Ferri (2010), entertainment can be defined as any activity that is understood objectively, includes communication between text and audience, comes from an external stimulus, offers pleasure, requires an audience to exist, and occurs in a passive form.

The word entertain derives from the Medieval Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.” Inter is related to the prefix in, and ten is related to the Indo-European root ten, meaning “stretch.”

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