screen time

See also: screentime

English

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screen time

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Alternative forms

• screentime

Pronunciation

• enPR: skrēn′ tīm′
• (Received Pronunciation, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹiːn ˌtaɪ̯m/
• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹin ˌtaɪ̯m/

  (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹin ˌtʌɪ̯m/

  (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹin ˌtʌi̯m/, /ˈskɹin ˌtəi̯m/

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹiːn ˌtɑe̯m/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾiːn ˌʈajm/
• Hyphenation: screen time

Noun

screen time (countable and uncountable, plural screen times)

2. The duration for which something is visible in film or television.

   The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.

4. The amount of time a person spends using screen-accessed technology (such as a television, a computer, a smartphone, etc.).

   The editorial advised parents of small children to limit their kids' screen time.

   • 2016, Noël Janis-Norton, Calmer Easier Happier Screen Time, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     In many families, children are getting more screen time than the parents think is good for them, although it's probably less than the children want.

   • 2018 March 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?”, in The Guardian‎:

     Every single parent I know frets about “screen time”, and most are engaged in a struggle with a toddler over how much iPad is allowed.

   • 2023 June 13, Bernie Sanders, “America is facing a mental health crisis”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     And then there is the radical impact that screen time and social media have had on the younger generation, something that previous generations have never experienced.

   • 2023, Sam Esmail, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, spoken by Rose:

     This isn't fair. It's a vacation. Dad said on vacation we can have as much screen time as we want.

   • 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 September 2025:

     When [Jean] Twenge started speaking out about screen time and social media, she was wary of recommending specific age restrictions to parents — something many experts, aside from her and [Jonathan] Haidt — remain loath to do.

Translations

duration something is visible

Chinese: Mandarin: 出場時間 / 出场时间 (chūchǎng shíjiān) Finnish: ruutuaika (fi) French: please add this translation if you can Georgian: საეკრანო დრო (saeḳrano dro) German: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: képernyőidő Polish: czas ekranowy m inan Swedish: please add this translation if you can

time spent using a screen

Chinese: Mandarin: 看屏幕的時間 / 看屏幕的时间 (kàn píngmù de shíjiān) Finnish: ruutuaika (fi) French: temps d'écran (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Bildschirmzeit f Hungarian: képernyőidő Polish: czas spędzony przed ekranem m inan Swedish: skärmtid (sv) c

Further reading

• “screen time”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “screen time, n.”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present, retrieved 8 October 2025.
• “screen time, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Butler, Jeremy Gaylord (1994), “screen time”, in Television: Critical Methods and Applications‎, second edition, Mahwah, NJ: Taylor & Francis, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 379: “The duration of a program […]”

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