telespectator

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

tele- +‎ spectator

Noun[edit]

telespectator (plural telespectators)

  1. One who witnesses an event on television.
    • 1952, Films in Review, volume 3, page 505:
      All these things that affect the psychology of the telespectator, must also affect the dramaturgical techniques of those who create the telecast.
    • 1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere[1]:
      The "telespectator" never receives the kinds of sutured transmissino conventionalized by Hollywood film, as well as expected of telecommunications by Freud.
    • 2009, Paul Connerton, How Modernity Forgets[2], page 83:
      The telespectator has no material object to watch or possess, only the experience of watching fleeting images on the screen.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French téléspectateur.

Noun[edit]

telespectator m (plural telespectatori)

  1. TV viewer

Declension[edit]