Entertaiment is an incredibly broad category that encompasses countless forms of art, recreation, and leisure. It can be as varied as a person’s interests, background, and emotional state: entertainment can be as low-brow as playgrounds or cartoons, as high-brow as fine art exhibitions or jazz concerts, and range from escapism to education to catharsis to cerebral engagement. Furthermore, entertainment has the unique ability to transcend different media and evolve to reflect a constantly changing technological landscape. Click on a collocation to see more examples.
From Middle English entertainment, from the Medieval Latin intertenere, from ten and the Indo-European root ter.