Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Late 20th century ·1954
Edutainment
education entertainment
- Meaning
- Content that combines instructional and entertainment goals.
- Source words
- education + entertainment
- Coined by
- Disney (internal)
- Year
- 1954
Background
Disney used it in internal memos about educational documentaries. General use exploded with 1990s CD-ROM software and *The Oregon Trail*-style school computing.
Late 20th century
Marketing, media, and the early internet. Infomercial, emoticon, workaholic — the coinages name phenomena of mass media and white-collar life. Several predate the decades they're associated with.
Two words, one coinage.
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