-dom

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Suffix

1. Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the suffixed word.

   boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom

   • 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage 2007, p. 74:

     there always seemed to be one outrageous beauty: an angel who would have been forced into indentured topmodeldom had she been found on a Paris bus; or a wavy-lipped, chisel-chinned, almond-eyed boy-warrior out of the Iliad, as beautiful as humans come.

2. Forming nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the suffixed word.

   Christendom, fiefdom, kingdom, Saxondom

3. Forming nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.

   catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom

   • 2011, Caitlin Moran, The Times, 19 Mar 2011:

     It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.

4. (fandom slang) Forming nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.

   Potterdom, stfdom

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