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memehood

memehood noun: the state of being a meme.

Noun

memehood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a meme.
    • And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.1995, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, →ISBN, page 359
    • Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.2008 September 15, Mark Milian, “New ‘Crysis’ has same issues”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 259, page 3, columns 1–2

Examples of memehood in a sentence

  • This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN:
  • […] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.2017, Anthony Palumbi, Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
  • Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.2021 June 17, Stefanie Pettit, “Navigating the meme streets of social media”, in The Spokesman-Review, 139th volume, number 9, page N4...
  • It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.2023 March 19, Talia Felix, “Steaming a Good Ham”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023:

Origin of memehood

From meme + -hood.

Questions about memehood

What does memehood mean?
Memehood means the state of being a meme.
How do you use memehood in a sentence?
This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.
What part of speech is memehood?
Memehood is a noun.

Words near memehood in the dictionary

  1. memecoins
  2. memed
  3. memed on
  4. memedom
  5. memefication
  6. memehood
  7. memeification
  8. memeifications
  9. memeified
  10. memeifies
  11. memeify

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