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English
Etymology
From spectator + -ship.
Noun
spectatorship (countable and uncountable, plural spectatorships)
- 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:Once again, spectacle and spectator become confused, although here spectatorship becomes anything but passive […] .
Translations
state or quality of being a spectator
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 旁觀／旁观 (zh) (pángguān)
- Finnish: katsojuus
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
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