Entertaiment

Entertaiment is one of the most versatile of all artistic genres. Familiar forms, often reworked in different media and with a seemingly unlimited capacity for creative remix, have ensured continuity over time and across cultural boundaries. In fact, the word entertainment itself derives from the Medieval Latin intertenere and its Indo-European root ten, meaning to hold inside. This suggests that to entertain is to occupy the mind with something that holds interest or pleasure.

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