Entertaiment

Something that amuses or diverts; an agreeable occupation for the mind: solving a crossword is entertainment for many people.

Storytelling, art, music and games have a powerful capacity to entertain. The themes and images of familiar stories are endlessly reworked in new contexts. The Persian professional storytelling tradition of Scheherazade, for example, has inspired orchestral works by composers Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Szymanowski; a film by director Pasolini; and innovative video games.

Sometimes the word ‘entertaiment’ is abbreviated to entmt. You may see this on fliers for entertainment events, or in industry news publications where space is limited. Otherwise it is not common. The Collins Dictionary definition of ‘entertainment’ is: an activity understood objectively, involving communication between text and audience from an external stimulus, offering pleasure, requiring an audience and occurring in a passive form.