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anticelebrity

anticelebrity adjective: opposing celebrity.

Adjective

anticelebrity (comparative more anticelebrity, superlative most anticelebrity)

  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” […]2009, Erik Hage, The Words and Music of Van Morrison, page 120
    • The highly literate distaste for people who too passionately identify with fictional incarnations has a distinctly anticelebrity feel to it.2010, Blakey Vermeule, Why do we care about literary characters?, page x

Forms of anticelebrity

comparativemore anticelebrity
superlativemost anticelebrity

Origin of anticelebrity

From anti- + celebrity.

Questions about anticelebrity

What does anticelebrity mean?
Anticelebrity means opposing celebrity.
What part of speech is anticelebrity?
Anticelebrity is an adjective.

Words near anticelebrity in the dictionary

  1. anticausativisation
  2. anticausativity
  3. anticausativization
  4. anticausotic
  5. anticavity
  6. anticelebrity
  7. anticelibacy
  8. anticellulite
  9. anticensor
  10. anticensors
  11. anticensorship

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