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Entertaiment is a fun, exciting and interesting word to use. It can inspire a lot of creativity and has many synonyms that are similar to it. You can find these similar words and definitions in the thesaurus.

It is also commonly abbreviated to entmt on fliers and industry news publications where space is an issue. However, it is not often used in general prose, other than as an acronym.

Entertainment is a way of distracting people from their mundane lives by creating situations that are both gratifying and sometimes challenging to the mind, body and soul. Entertaiment hits on the themes that humans were evolved to react deeply to, like social backstabbing, murders and other controversial topics. It stimulates the brain to realease seratonin and dopamine. The power of stories that entertain is illustrated by how often they are retold in different media. For example, Scheherazade, a story in the Persian professional storytelling tradition, has been retold as an orchestral piece of music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Szymanowski, in a film by Pasolini, and in innovative video games.