postfame

Adjective

postfame (comparative more postfame, superlative most postfame)

1. After having been famous (but now forgotten).
   • There were worse things than postfame obscurity, of course.2004, Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood, page 181
   • He wrote that the "springtime" of his life had nurtured the experience that had become the fodder for his fiction; the "summer," the realization of actual composition; the "autumn," his postfame years and subsequent collapse depicted so candidly in Big Sur.2007, Paul Maher, Kerouac: The Definitive Biography, page 435
2. After having become famous (and now famous).
   • In the opening, postfame scene that frames the film, she is hyperfeminized to accentuate her body as wealthy and nonlaboring (in a job that would require shorter nails, that is.)2003, Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini, Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, page 263
   • Thomas Moore explained in the 1820 preface to Lalla Rookh that, following the tremendous success of his early Irish Melodies, he was in a sort of postfame hangover and had difficulty beginning Lalla Rookh.2008, Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History, page 157