Meanings
- uncountableThe realm, sphere, influence, or body of readers; readers collectively; readership.
In the name of outraged readerdom I protest against such betrayal.
1903, Robert Blatchford, A book about books3 more examples
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.
1915, Lippincott's monthly magazine, volume 95"[…] 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” […]
2007, Nina L. Khrushcheva, Imagining Nabokov[…] 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!
2008, Steven James Hansen, Touching the Monkey
Origin
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