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Televisable vs Untelevisable - What's the difference?

televisable | untelevisable |

As adjectives the difference between televisable and untelevisable

is that televisable is that can be televised; suitable for television while untelevisable is not televisable; unsuitable for television.

televisable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That can be televised; suitable for television.

    • untelevisable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
  • * 1969 , Harper's Bazaar (volume 102)
    • Now that TV has replaced movies as the mass entertainment medium, Hollywood has responded with untelevisable sex — not Doris Day, twin-bed sex, but moaning, thrashing, rolling-around-naked sex
  • * 1973 , The Listener (volume 91)
    • It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable , because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.
  • * 1979 , Sidney Kraus, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, The Great Debates: Carter vs. Ford, 1976
    • We were very cognizant that a horrendously large part of this whole audience would be viewers on television, and so it would be foolish, I thought, to create a set that was untelevisable .