freakdom

English

Etymology

From freak +‎ -dom.

Noun

freakdom (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being freakish, strange, or bizarre.
   • 1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 317:

     The attack sequence dissolves to the present, back to the circus sideshow of the first reel and the curious onlookers, awaiting a glimpse of the creature in the pit, the framing device all but forgotten during the past seventy minutes of full immersion in freakdom.

   • 2011, Anne Rothe, Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 79:

     Self-made freaks like excessively tattooed people created and cultivated their freakdom.

   • 2012, Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits, Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 202:

     […] Thanks to the fight at the dance and your and Noah's make-out session before first period, some people think you dumped Luke for Noah, officially putting you on the road to freakdom.”