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disinfotainment

noun

Etymology

Blend of disinformation + infotainment.

  1. derived from entretenement
  2. inherited from entretenement — “support, maintenance”
  3. compounded as infotainment — “information + entertainment”
  4. compounded as disinfotainment — “disinformation + infotainment”

Definitions

  1. infotainment based on incorrect or misleading information

    • The prospect of CBC Newsworld adopting the style and substance of CNN, and thus joining fully the world of "disinfotainment," is as depressing as it seems inevitable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disinfotainment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA