readerdom

English

Etymology

From reader +‎ -dom.

Noun

readerdom (uncountable)

1. The realm, sphere, influence, or body of readers; readers collectively; readership.
   • 1903, Robert Blatchford, A book about books:

     In the name of outraged readerdom I protest against such betrayal.

   • 1915, Lippincott's monthly magazine, volume 95:

     They come, I have found, separately and in substantial chunks. Your happy ending is obviously a sop to the tired business man of readerdom who prefers to do his thinking in the office.

   • 2007, Nina L. Khrushcheva, Imagining Nabokov:

     " […] He clashes with readerdom because he is his own ideal reader and those other readers are so very often mere lip- moving ghosts and amnesiacs” […]

   • 2008, Steven James Hansen, Touching the Monkey:

     […] you—the huddled masses, the prols, the readers (who at this moment in history appear to be a dying breed)—to step from the shadows and affirm your readerdom, claiming it from the blight of infotainment and the cult of celebrity-worship TV!