spectatorship

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English

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Etymology

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From spectator +‎ -ship.

Noun

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spectatorship (countable and uncountable, plural spectatorships)

  1. The state or quality of being a spectator
    • 1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society:
      His sporting enthusiasms had already embraced yachting, coaching, fencing, and spectatorship at boxing-matches, cock-fights, dog-fights, and rat-baitings.
    • 1988 March 11, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Paranoid Illusions”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Once again, spectacle and spectator become confused, although here spectatorship becomes anything but passive [] .

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