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spectatorship

spectatorship noun: the state or quality of being a spectator.

Noun

spectatorship (countable and uncountable, plural spectatorships)

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

Forms of spectatorship

pluralspectatorships

Origin of spectatorship

From spectator + -ship.

Questions about spectatorship

What does spectatorship mean?
Spectatorship means the state or quality of being a spectator.
What part of speech is spectatorship?
Spectatorship is a noun.
What is the plural of spectatorship?
The plural of spectatorship is spectatorships.

Words near spectatorship in the dictionary

  1. spectatoring
  2. spectatorism
  3. spectatoritis
  4. spectatorless
  5. spectators
  6. spectatorship
  7. spectatorships
  8. spectatory
  9. spectatour
  10. spectatours
  11. spectatress

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