Entertaiment is a broad category that includes many forms of art. It can include rites, parties, non secular pageants, satire and other similar activities. It may also involve themes of extreme cruelty, murder or other events that the human mind was shaped to react deeply to. Entertaiment has also shown a great ability to cross over different media and it is easy to find a familiar form of entertainment, which have proven to be quite enduring, inside of one or another style.

The word comes from Medieval Latin inter tenere, meaning to hold within. Click on a collocation to see more examples.