Meanings
- rareuncountableSynonym of serfdom (“the condition of being a serf”).
Before you know it you are twitterpated and on your way to 30 years of “serfitude” working morn and night to refill a refrigerator that is the favorite meeting place ofa half-dozen fat locusts with thyroid conditions.
(Can we date this quote?), Robert Winthrop Curley, So Far Out That He's In: Opinions from an Opinionated Journalist, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 2741 more example
The talk in their little hamlet in the province of Cosenza, where the Lanzas had been known for generations for their fine castile soap, played up America as a place where accidents of birth didn't doom you to a lifetime of serfitude[…]
1985, Joe Adamson, The Walter Lantz Story: With Woody Woodpecker and Friends, Putnam AdultSynonyms: serfdom
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of serfdom (“the condition of being a serf”).
Origin
From serf, perhaps influenced by servitude.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
serfitude. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/serfitude
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