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anticelebrity

adj

Etymology

From anti- + celebrity.

  1. derived from celēbritās
  2. derived from celebrite
  3. inherited from celebritē
  4. prefixed as anticelebrity — “anti + celebrity”

Definitions

  1. Opposing celebrity.

    • The singer had continually been occupied, to distraction, with making anticelebrity and antifame statements. He spent a good portion of the late 1980s and early 1990s dismissing his fame as an “illusion” […]
    • The highly literate distaste for people who too passionately identify with fictional incarnations has a distinctly anticelebrity feel to it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA