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spectatordom

spectatordom noun: the role or status of spectator.

Noun

spectatordom (uncountable)

  1. The role or status of spectator.
    • He was there to represent spectatordom, and help make this seemingly insignificant event one with the removal of the gods of Troy.1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 49
    • Most important, Manet seems intuitively to have recognized that Courbet’s attempt to abolish the very possibility of spectatordom was doomed in every instance to (ontological not artistic) failure, or at any rate that success in that attempt was literally inconceivable, and that it was necessary to...1986, Stephen W. Melville, Philosophy Beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14, →ISBN

Origin of spectatordom

From spectator + -dom.

Questions about spectatordom

What does spectatordom mean?
Spectatordom means the role or status of spectator.
What part of speech is spectatordom?
Spectatordom is a noun.

Words near spectatordom in the dictionary

  1. spectator chairs
  2. spectator ion
  3. spectator ions
  4. spectator sport
  5. spectator sports
  6. spectatordom
  7. spectatorial
  8. spectatorially
  9. spectatories
  10. spectatoring
  11. spectatorism

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