different between television vs showmance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French télévision; tele- +? vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

1. (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

   It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.

2. (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.

   I have an old television in the study.

3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

   fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

4. (uncountable) Vision at a distance.
   • 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:

     the magic mirror … which furnished him television of his family and country

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Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (terebijon)
• ? Maltese: televixin
• ? Swahili: televisheni

Translations

Verb

television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)

1. (neologism, informal) To watch television.

Anagrams

• olivenites

Finnish

Noun

television

1. genitive singular of televisio

Lombard

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tele?vi?un/

Noun

television

1. television

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

television f (plural televisions)

1. television

Swedish

Etymology

From English television, from tele- +? vision.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t?l?v???u?n/

Noun

television c

1. television

Declension

Related terms

• teve
• tv

English

Etymology

Blend of show +? romance

Noun

showmance (countable and uncountable, plural showmances)

1. (colloquial) A romance between cast members or production crew of a play or television show (often reality shows) which only lasts the duration of the show, or its filming.
   • 2004, David Wienir and Jodie Langel, Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top, New York, Allworth Communications, Inc., ?ISBN, pg. 115:

     I notoriously fell for my leading man. I really did. By the third or fourth leading man I said "No, Mom, it's real. I love him. I know it is sort of like a pattern but I love him." There is legitimacy to a showmance."

   • 2005, Jane Ganahl, Single Woman of a Certain Age: 29 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife—Romantic Escapades, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes, and Serene Independence, New World Library, ?ISBN, pg. 161:

     Eventually the tale of a stagehand who seemed to be separated from his housebound wife, but, oddly, not when she came to visit, seemed more amusing than appalling, and I learned not to wince at the various (sometimes painfully) young women who arrived breathless and eager for a Showmance—whether or not there was a wife in the background. [sic]

   • 2008, David Lyle quoted in "Love is in the Air This Valentine’s Day When Fox Reality Channel Premieres 'The Top 25 Hottest Reality Showmances,'" Business Wire, February 11, 2008, 09:00 AM EST, (article):

     In addition to mud-slinging, deception and drama, showmance is one aspect that makes reality television so addicting.