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Gaydom vs Faydom - What's the difference?

gaydom | faydom |

As nouns the difference between gaydom and faydom

is that gaydom is the collective lgbt experience, community, and culture while faydom is the state of being fay or doomed.

gaydom

English

Noun

(-)
  • The collective LGBT experience, community, and culture
  • * 1996 , Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology , page 56
    • El
  • (en noun)sewhere, "gaydom " was rapidly becoming "lesbian and gaydom.
  • * 2000 , Larry Kramer, Reynolds Price, Faggots
    • Tonight was an opening that would be covered by Women's Wear and filled with slummers and celebrities and socialites, now that gaydom in this city is so chic.
  • * 2006 , The advocate: Issues 970-977
    • I was supposed to come out on a white horse in the name of gaydom .
  • * 2007 , Cecily von Ziegesar, Don't You Forget About Me
    • “I thought I'd video your journey into gaydom ,” Vanessa told him with a smirk. “

    faydom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being fay or doomed.
  • (dialectal) A portent, usually of death; doom.
  • *2005 , John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet :
    • Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?
  • *1998 , George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz :
    • He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom .
  • *1853 , Charles Dickens, Household words :
    • [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.