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antifame

adj

Etymology

From anti- + fame.

  1. derived from *bʰéh₂-meh₂✻
  2. derived from fāma — “talk, rumor, report, reputation”
  3. derived from fame — “celebrity, renown”
  4. inherited from fame
  5. prefixed as antifame — “anti + fame”

Definitions

  1. Opposing fame.

    • 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 neighborhood

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