anticelebrity

comparative more anticelebrity · superlative most anticelebrity

1. Opposing celebrity.

   The highly literate distaste for people who too passionately identify with fictional incarnations has a distinctly anticelebrity feel to it.

   2010, Blakey Vermeule, Why do we care about literary characters?, page x

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   The singer had continually been occupied, to distraction, with making anticelebrity and antifame statements. He spent a good portion of the late 1980s and early 1990s dismissing his fame as an “illusion” […]

   2009, Erik Hage, The Words and Music of Van Morrison, page 120