starhood

English

Etymology

From star +‎ -hood.

Noun

starhood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
   • 2002, Tom Siegfried, Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time:

     Brown dwarfs are much bigger than planets but not quite big enough to generate the internal pressure needed to burst into starhood.

   • 2008, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox, Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, page 289:

     Near those stars-to-be, other bodies, too low in mass ever to reach starhood, also began to form.

   • 2009, Peter Benjaminson, The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard, page 169:

     It was the only image of the funeral most people saw, making the occasion an emblem of Diana's starhood rather than a celebration of Florence's life and a scene of mourning for her death.

Synonyms

• (the state of being a celebrity): stardom

Anagrams

• hood rats, hoodrats