faydom

English

Etymology 1

From fay (“fairy”) +‎ -dom.

Noun

faydom (uncountable)

1. The realm or sphere of faerie.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household words:

     [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.

   • 1998, George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz:

     He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom.

Etymology 2

From fay (“fated, doomed”) +‎ -dom.

Noun

faydom (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of feydom