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- uncountableThe state or condition of being a model (all senses).
In short, the particularities of her history as a woman set up the conditions under which she could become a model; they cleared the ground for modelhood.
2000, Barbara Entwisle, Gail Henderson, Re-drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China2 more examples
Although it's not essential to the project at hand, let's slightly modify the usual notion of modelhood. Sense-bearing languages can contain empty designators, a phenomenon that was idealized away by the notion of modelhood just introduced.
1990, George Boolos, Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam, page 239The presence of a local labor model, as well as her style of modelhood, meant that village involvement with new state projects also entailed the embrace of the familiar.
2011, Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
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