Entertaiment is a collection of media entertainment, including but not limited to: films, television shows, books, music and new forms of interactive media. It often hits on themes that the human mind was evolved to deeply react to, such as backstabbing and murders in a social world. This makes it more than just a form of entertainment, but a means to understand the world around us.
The word entertainment has its roots in the Medieval Latin intertenere, which means “to hold inside.” In more contemporary French it is entretenir, which also implies holding or maintaining.
Entertaiment has a tendency to cross over many different forms of media and demonstrates a nearly endless potential for creative remix. Click on a collocation below to find more examples of that concept.