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celebrityship

noun

Etymology

From celebrity + -ship.

  1. derived from celēbritās
  2. derived from celebrite
  3. inherited from celebritē
  4. suffixed as celebrityship — “celebrity + ship”

Definitions

  1. The condition or status of being a celebrity

    The condition or status of being a celebrity; celebrityhood

    • I had heard of her celebrityship frequently, but had never seen her before.
    • While this was no doubt true for da Vinci and his sodomy suit, and Cellini's escapades, the contemporary mass media and the urge for candor carry celebrityship to new heights, as part of aesthetic appreciation, broadly conceived.
    • These include the prominence of image and electronic media in political discourse (the Berlusconi effect) with the consequent blurring (or Blairing) of the lines between politics and entertainment as part of a culture of celebrityship.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for celebrityship. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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