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What is the difference between enjoyment and entertainment?

enjoyment | entertainment |

As nouns the difference between enjoyment and entertainment

is that enjoyment is the condition of enjoying anything while entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

enjoyment

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
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  • (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind.
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  • (countable) An activity that gives pleasure.
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  • (legal) The exercise of a legal right.

    • Related terms

    * amusement * joy * happiness * hedonism

    entertainment

    English

    (wikipedia entertainment)

    Alternative forms

    * entretainment (chiefly archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
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  • a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
  • (obsolete) maintenance or support
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  • Admission into service; service.
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  • (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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    • The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

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