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infotainment

Syllables: in·fo·tain·ment/ˌɪnfəʊˈteɪnmənt/US/ˌɪnfoʊˈteɪnmənt/

infotainment noun: a form of programming (cinematic, television, live action, etc.) that provides both information and entertainment, consisting of mostly celebrity news and human drama.

Noun

infotainment (countable and uncountable, plural infotainments)

  1. A form of programming (cinematic, television, live action, etc.) that provides both information and entertainment, consisting of mostly celebrity news and human drama.
    Synonyms:
    soft news
  2. Information and/or entertainment facilities.
    • Unsurprisingly, more people are choosing not to use their car’s native infotainment controls. Only 56 percent of owners prefer to use their vehicle’s built-in system to play audio, down from 70 percent in 2020, JD Power found. Less than half of owners said they like using their car’s native...2023 July 20, Andrew J. Hawkins, “People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2023
    • Nakasone added that the NSA does not purchase cellphone location data of Americans or location data generated by automotive infotainment systems in the United States.2024 January 26, Brian Fung, “The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2025

infotainment meaning in Kannada

infotainment in Kannada

ಕಲಿನಲಿ, ತಿಳಿನಲಿ, ನಲಿವರಿಕೆ

Synonyms of infotainment

Forms of infotainment

pluralinfotainments

Origin of infotainment

Blend of information + entertainment.

Words formed from infotainment

Words that rhyme with infotainment

Questions about infotainment

What does infotainment mean?
Infotainment means a form of programming (cinematic, television, live action, etc.) that provides both information and entertainment, consisting of mostly celebrity news and human drama.
What is infotainment in Kannada?
Infotainment in Kannada is ಕಲಿನಲಿ, ತಿಳಿನಲಿ, ನಲಿವರಿಕೆ. See Infotainment meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is infotainment?
Infotainment is a noun.
How do you pronounce infotainment?
Infotainment is pronounced /ˌɪnfəʊˈteɪnmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of infotainment?
The plural of infotainment is infotainments.

Words near infotainment in the dictionary

  1. infotain
  2. infotained
  3. infotainer
  4. infotainers
  5. infotaining
  6. infotainment
  7. infotainments
  8. infotains
  9. infotaxis
  10. infotech
  11. infotechnological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infotainment (page history and authors); infotainment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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