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spectatorship

spectatorship

1 6.7
Watching an event or performance as part of the audience
  • noun
  • /spɛkˈteɪʃərˌʃɪp/
: espectadores
  • Many people enjoy the spectatorship of live concerts, where they can experience the music in person.
  • impartial spectatorship
  • classical spectatorship
  • sport spectatorship

Examples

  • The grand total of American expenditures for sport spectatorship approaches $8 billion annually.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Boxing was another activity that involved more spectatorship than participation.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The participation of citizens was reduced to pure spectatorship.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Not just a performance, then, it potentially dramatizes the ethics of spectatorship as well.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Mass audiences do not engage in passive spectatorship or merely absorb messages as intended by their senders.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Through these layers of spectatorship, the work constructs multiple culturally-inflected positions in relation to enacted events.

    Academic text (1998)
  • There are cameras, there are guards, there are viewing platforms, and it echoes, in some ways, the kind of close spectatorship of bodies that also happens in theatres.

  • The spectatorship at the championship game was electric, with fans cheering for their favorite teams.

  • The documentary explored the evolution of spectatorship in sports and how it has changed over the decades.

Synonyms

audience
vsspectatorship
∞ 1.1

People who sit together to watch a performance or listen to a speech

is the experience of watching an event rather than the physical group present

Antonyms

226 2.8

Taking part in an activity or event with other people

How Engaged

engagement
96 3.9
spectatorship
1 6.7
presence
∞ 2.1
sideliner
1 6.1
mere voyeurism
  • Offensive
8.9

Surface Forms

spectatorship singular

Morphology

spectatorship = spectator (transparent) = spectator + ship

Formed by a standard noun ('spectator') plus the abstract noun suffix '-ship' meaning the condition or role of being a spectator.

Etymology

The word spectatorship comes from spectator, which comes from the old Latin spectare meaning 'to look'. So, like a spectacle (a show you watch), spectatorship is the activity or experience of watching an event.