tittytainment
/ˌtɪtiˈteɪn.mənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At the other extreme were those who foresaw growing international inequality—“a 20 to 80 world, a one-fifth society in which those left out will have to be pacified by tittytainment” (tits plus entertainment)—or “a deepening international anarchy” as “market forces and shrinking natural resources drag sovereign states into ever more dangerous rivalries.”"
- "This is the 20:80 society, where 20% of the total population suffice to keep the world economy going and the unemployed 80% are pacified by a (media) diet of “tittytainment” - the modern equivalent of bread and circuses."
- "In order to preserve social stability, they will supply “tittytainment” to the rest of the society, that being a mixture of basic living supplies and entertainment. This, in my eyes, is quite the opposite of a happy life built on mutual respect […]"
- "It is stuffed with video games and mixtures of info-, enter-, and tittytainment and dominated purely by economic interests."
- "Their energies are being redirected to creative venture and above all their sermon of hope provided a sort of “tittytainment” that kept them out of trouble."
Etymology
Blend of titty + entertainment, in reference to the pacifying effect of watching TV, similar to that of a child sucking on its mother's breast. Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann claim in The Global Trap that it was coined by Polish-American diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski.