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The conscious or unconscious discrimination against a person due to there perceived lack of fame or disproportionate favouritism toward people with perceived credentials of fame.
When Z-list celebritiys appear on the fromt page of newspapers, solely due to the fact they are well know, even due to the fact they have no redeeming features.

Fame hungry participants in reality TV shows.

'Kate Lawler suffers from fameism'
fameism by Dave Floyd August 24, 2006
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Kind of famous. Internet-famous people are fameish. Harlequin romance novelists are fameish. People on game shows are fameish. You were fameish that time you got interviewed for your local television station on your opinion of Craigslist prostitution.

Most fameish people think they are actually famous, but that is a myth.
"I have a million followers on Twitter, I'm fameish!"

"My friend became fameish after smacking his nuts on those giant bouncy balls in Wipeout."

"I'm so fameish, I'm on the main page for my college's website. Who wants a motherfucking autograph??
fameish by Raquel PW May 26, 2011
Related Words
When a bitch just fake as hell.
“There’s so much fakeism in here.”
Fakeism by Mj106716 April 9, 2020
the opposite of realism in drawing. fakeism
this comic strip is drawn in fakeism style as opposed to the realism style
fakeism by david September 27, 2003
A state of mind in which the Faceist person is convinced that he hates a person for the way their face looks. The goal of Faceism is to elimnate the Undesirables and promote the DESIRABLES. Faceism often includes killing and mindless torture of those who have the UNDESIRABLES. Don't wory plastic surgery will only make your death more painfull. Faceist Groups generaly torture their victims by dunking their heads in boiling water then putting their face on dry-ice.
Leaders who employ Faceism try to eliminate the undesirables.
Faceism by North Mountain King April 16, 2009
faeism is a religion made by insane discordians.

fae is the leader and the god of the religion, fae encourages faeist to cut his name and do other type of things to show their respect.
person one: "have you heard of the faeism server?
person two: "faeism...?"
faeism by DianaUnwanted August 3, 2023
A style of artistic construction whereby every element of a piece is actually in one way or another, a FACE. This style although never strictly defined until now, was very strongly seen in the works of Salvador Dali, among others. In an urban context however this is evident in correlation to tagism in which faces are very common motifs in graffiti
a faceist style of painting, a faceist piece.
faceism by Alex Kessaris August 30, 2004
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A person who can freely travel between and fit in with all high school social groups and classes.
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See other definitions - waking up next to someone so ugly you'd rather chew your arm off than wake them up.
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Can also be used in response to a ban or mute in a forum site or online chat.
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Bob: Literally 1984!

--User1 has been permantly banned--
User2: You cant ban my friend like that! Literally 1984!
Literally 1984 by ke1 July 7, 2021
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