The realm, world, or collective state of fogies; old-fashioned thinking, attitudes, and people collectively considered as a distinct domain or system.
Derived from 'fogy' with the suffix '-dom' (from Old English 'dom' meaning judgment, power, or domain). Similar to 'kingdom,' 'christendom,' creating an abstract noun of scope or realm.
'Fogydom' treats old-fashioned thinking as though it were an actual kingdom with its own rules and inhabitants—it's a brilliant way writers mocked conservative Victorian society as if it were a separate, backwards country!
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