Entertaiment is the activity that holds and sustains the interest and attention of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but it’s more likely to be one of the activities that have developed over thousands of years specifically for this purpose. It can be anything from an art to a game or even an event such as a wedding.
From the Medieval Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.” The prefix inter means ‘inside,’ and the suffix tenere comes from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to stretch or pull something tight. The implication here is that entertainment stretches and holds our interest by pulling on our emotions.