spectatorship
nounEtymology From spectator + -ship.
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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: