Entertaiment is the activity that provides divergence, diversion, amusement, joy, and laughter to people in their leisure time. It is an essential component of human culture and plays a significant role in our daily lives. People may create their own entertainment, such as spontaneously inventing a game; or participate actively by engaging in an entertaining activity, such as playing sport as a hobby; or they may consume entertainment passively, such as when they watch a performance.
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The word entertainment is derived from the Latin inter-tenere, which means to hold inside. The prefix inter suggests “inside” and the suffix tenere comes from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to stretch or extend.