film-goingn.
/ˈfɪlmˌɡəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmˌɡoʊɪŋ/ The action or activity of going to the cinema.
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1919 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 21 Oct. 5/1 A strange feature of her filmgoing is that every time she sees a picture it is at the last show given in the evening.
1930 Austral. Q. Dec. 95 The ‘talkies’, by their unprecedented vogue here, have drawn the attention of people not fully aware before of the effects of filmgoing.
1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Business section) 6/3 The popularity of multiplexes showed that there was a voracious appetite for film-going in Britain.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
film-goingadj.
/ˈfɪlmˌɡəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmˌɡoʊɪŋ/ Designating people who go to the cinema, esp. regularly.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > going to film shows > [adjective]
cinema-going1915
film-going1916
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1916 Moving Picture World 4 Mar. 1497/2 Many of the film-going public seem to entertain the idea that the making of motion pictures of this kind is merely a pleasant pastime.
1966 F. Hardy in J. Grierson Grierson on Documentary Introd. 15 Grierson began to..analyse the reactions of the film-going masses as measured at the box-office.
2014 Observer 28 Dec. (Mag.) 53/2 The film-going audience is well used to apocalyptic scenarios.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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