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filmhood

filmhood noun: the quality, state, or condition of a film, especially in reference to its cinematic completion, achievement, accomplishment, or success.

Noun

filmhood (uncountable)

  1. The quality, state, or condition of a film, especially in reference to its cinematic completion, achievement, accomplishment, or success.
    • Soon the Germans would see me on their screens and hear me barking. There was also plenty of work for me in Hollywood. The Food of the Gods was never to achieve filmhood, nor was the projected musical on Shakespeare's life called Will!1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
    • By stripping down film to the minimal conditions for filmhood, the filmmaker highlighted those conditions in ways that can lead viewers to comprehend Serene Velocity's philosophical point.2007, Film and Philosophy

Origin of filmhood

From film + -hood.

Questions about filmhood

What does filmhood mean?
Filmhood means the quality, state, or condition of a film, especially in reference to its cinematic completion, achievement, accomplishment, or success.
What part of speech is filmhood?
Filmhood is a noun.

Words near filmhood in the dictionary

  1. filmfest
  2. filmfests
  3. filmgoer
  4. filmgoers
  5. filmgoing
  6. filmhood
  7. filmi
  8. filmi geet
  9. filmi geets
  10. filmic
  11. filmically

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