dollhood

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

doll +‎ -hood

Noun[edit]

dollhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being a doll.
    • 1919, The Athenæum, page 1004:
      […] one is now and then just perceptibly annoyed by the persistent sentimentality with which the poet reduces his personae, not indeed merely to terms of childhood, but more exactly to terms of dollhood.
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