noveldom

English

Etymology

novel +‎ -dom

Noun

noveldom (uncountable)

1. The sphere of novels
   • 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour‎^[1]:

     These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are."

   • 1883, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist‎^[2], Appendix:

     In noveldom woman still sets the moral standard, and to her the males, who are in full revolt against the acceptance of the infatuation of a pair of lovers as the highest manifestation of the social instinct, and against the restriction of the affections within the narrow circle of blood relationship, and of the political sympathies within frontiers, are to her what she calls heartless brutes.