Articles about Entertaiment
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The etymology of entertainment is interesting: it comes from the medieval Latin inter tenere, which means “to hold inside.” The prefix inter suggests that it is internal, and the suffix -tene indicates its Indo-European root, a form of the verb to stretch or expand.
Entertainment is often thought to stimulate the brain, wich can cause the body to realease seratonin and dopamine. This is because many entertainment hits on points the mind was evolved to react deeply to, in order to understand a complex world around us.