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tittytainment

noun
/ˌtɪtiˈteɪn.mənt/

Etymology

Blend of titty + entertainment, in reference to the pacifying effect of watching TV, similar to that of a child sucking on its mother's breast. Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann claimed that coinage attributed to Polish-American diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Global Trap.

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

Definitions

  1. A form of lowest-common-denominator entertainment designed to appeal to the masses and…

    A form of lowest-common-denominator entertainment designed to appeal to the masses and dissuade people from thinking.

    • This is the 20:80 society, where 20% of the total population suffice to keep the world economy going and the unemployed 80% are pacified by a (media) diet of “tittytainment” - the modern equivalent of bread and circuses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tittytainment. 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