Meanings
nounspectatorship (countable and uncountable, plural spectatorships)
plural spectatorships
- countableuncountableThe state or quality of being a spectator
Once again, spectacle and spectator become confused, although here spectatorship becomes anything but passive[…].
1988 March 11, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Paranoid Illusions”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
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
Origin
- Englishspectator
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishspectatorship
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 旁觀 /旁观
- 旁觀 /旁观 (pángguān)state or quality of being a spectator
Finnish katsojuus
- katsojuusstate or quality of being a spectator
Cite this entry
APA
spectatorship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectatorship
MLA
“spectatorship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectatorship. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spectatorship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectatorship.
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