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celebrityness

celebrityness

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Noun

celebrityness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of a celebrity.
    • 2006, B. Reynolds, Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries:
      Consequently, Mary/Moll provides a fertile landscape from which to harvest an understanding of the production and consumption of transhistorical “celebrityness,” and in this case a celebrityness born out of social deviance.
    • 2010, Ilene Angel, In Search of George Stephanopoulos:
      And I know I have downplayed their celebrityness.
    • 2014, Thomas Hauser, Reflections: Conversations, Essays, and Other Writings:
      To clearly become a force and a vibration that will rip away the facade, rip away the chicanery, rip away the cosmetic that gives one the sense that all is well with black people because these people have the role of celebritiness despite what's happening to the larger masses of black people.
    • 2016, Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex - Volume 1:
      [...] Tommy was the only San Franciscan who could match Aveda in celebrityness, and Whistles management had thought he'd make a fine addition to tonight's event. I knew Aveda thought differently.

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