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Entertaining is something which makes you forget all your problems in a moment, in a euphoric state, you wish that this moment never ends, just lasts forever. This is a feeling that is very natural, everyone feels it when they get entertained. Entertaining can be done by various means like theater, music concerts, comedy shows, visual arts etc. The word entertainment is derived from the Latin Intertenere, with the prefix inter meaning in, and suffix tenere, a form of the Indo-European root ten. It was also translated into Old French as entretenement.
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– Some people are entertained by others’ pain or the idea of their unhappiness (schadenfreude). This is a negative form of entertainment.