modelhoodとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

modelhood (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of being a model (all senses).
   • 1990, George Boolos, Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam, page 239:

     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.

   • 2000, Barbara Entwisle, ‎Gail Henderson, Re-drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China:

     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.

   • 2011, Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past:

     The 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.

関連する語

• modeldom
• modelship