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newstainment

noun

Etymology

Blend of news + entertainment.

  1. derived from entretenement
  2. inherited from entretenement — “support, maintenance”
  3. compounded as newstainment — “news + entertainment”

Definitions

  1. Television news presented in a sensationalist manner, intended more to entertain than to…

    Television news presented in a sensationalist manner, intended more to entertain than to inform.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for newstainment. 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