telespectator
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
telespectator (plural telespectators)
- One who witnesses an event on television.
- 1952, Films in Review, volume 3, page 505:
- All these things that affect the psychology of the telespectator, must also affect the dramaturgical techniques of those who create the telecast.
- 1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere[1]:
- The "telespectator" never receives the kinds of sutured transmissino conventionalized by Hollywood film, as well as expected of telecommunications by Freud.
- 2009, Paul Connerton, How Modernity Forgets[2], page 83:
- The telespectator has no material object to watch or possess, only the experience of watching fleeting images on the screen.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French téléspectateur.
Noun edit
telespectator m (plural telespectatori)
- TV viewer
Declension edit
Declension of telespectator
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) telespectator | telespectatorul | (niște) telespectatori | telespectatorii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) telespectator | telespectatorului | (unor) telespectatori | telespectatorilor |
| vocative | telespectatorule | telespectatorilor | ||