English

Noun

modeldom ‎(uncountable)

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.
   • 1990, The Woodenboat - Issues 92-97, page 60:

     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?

4. The quality or state of being a model (any sense) or exemplar.
   • 2001, Peter K. Machamer, ‎Rick Grush, ‎& Peter McLaughlin, Theory and Method in the Neurosciences, ISBN 0822970570, page 217:

     Might the mouse be the Holy Grail of genetic and neuroscientific modeldom?

   • 2001, Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village, ISBN 052092567X, page 73:

     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.

   • 2012, Arnold Perlmutter, Field Theory in Elementary Particles, ISBN 1461593433, page 42:

     They are premodels, short of modeldom because they are not well-defined.

Synonyms

• (state of being a model): modelhood