spectatorship

English

Etymology

From spectator +‎ -ship.

Noun

spectatorship (countable and uncountable, plural spectatorships)

1. The state or quality of being a spectator
   • 1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society:

     His sporting enthusiasms had already embraced yachting, coaching, fencing, and spectatorship at boxing-matches, cock-fights, dog-fights, and rat-baitings.

   • 1988 March 11, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Paranoid Illusions”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Once again, spectacle and spectator become confused, although here spectatorship becomes anything but passive […] .

Translations

state or quality of being a spectator

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旁觀／旁观 (zh) (pángguān)

• Finnish: katsojuus
• Russian: please add this translation if you can