Examples of Entertaiment

Entertaiment is the art of stimulating the brain to realease seratonin, dopamine and other chemicals. It often hits on the points that the human mind was evolved to react deeply to, like social backstabbing and murders. These are themes that were very important for humans to understand in order to live as a social species.

These examples have been programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word ‘entertainment.’ As with all of our curated collections, these are not intended to be exhaustive. We encourage you to add new examples to this collection. You can do so by clicking on the plus sign (+) next to each word.

The word entertainment derives from the Medieval Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.” It later changed to entretenir, which still exists in modern French and means to maintain or keep together.