Entertaiment is a type of entertainment that is designed to keep people engaged and interested. It can be anything from a simple idea or task to something that has been developed over thousands of years into an event or activity specifically to hold people’s attention. The word “entertainment” is derived from the Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.”
One of the main reasons that entertainment is so effective at keeping people engaged is that it often hits on points that our brains were evolved to deeply react to, like social backstabbing or murders for example. The experience of entertainment has become strongly linked to leisure, resulting in the common understanding that it involves fun and laughter, but many forms of entertainment have a more extreme purpose, like a ritual, party, non secular pageant or satire for instance.