modeldom

The realm or world of fashion models; models collectively.

Noun

  1. The realm or world of fashion models; models collectively.
  2. The state of being a fashion model.
  3. The industry and community of modelmaking.
    • But if modelmaking is not art, why is it that, in the upper reaches of modeldom, where the best do their work, there is an identifiable difference in "feel" between the work of one modelmaker and another? - 1990, The...
  4. The quality or state of being a model (any sense) or exemplar.
    • Might the mouse be the Holy Grail of genetic and neuroscientific modeldom? - 2001, Peter K. Machamer, Rick Grush, Peter McLaughlin, Theory and Method in the Neurosciences, →ISBN, page 217:
    • But as the village emerged into the full glare of modeldom in the early 1990s, Yu's tolerance for any form a dissent wore thin. - 2001, Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village, →ISBN, page 73:
    • They are premodels, short of modeldom because they are not well-defined. - 2012, Arnold Perlmutter, Field Theory in Elementary Particles, →ISBN, page 42:

Origin

From model + -dom.

Synonyms

modelhood