Entertaining vs. Entertainment — What's the Difference?

Agreeably diverting; amusing

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

Very amusing; that entertains.

The act of entertaining.

Present participle of entertain

The art or field of entertaining.

(archaic) Entertainment.

Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.

Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting.

The pleasure afforded by being entertained; amusement

Agreeably diverting or amusing;

(Archaic) Maintenance; support.

(Obsolete) Employment.

An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.

(obsolete) Maintenance or support.

(obsolete) Admission into service; service.

(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

(obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

That which entertains, or with which one is entertained;

Admission into service; service.

Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

A diversion that holds the attention