What's the difference between bachelordom and bachelorhood?
Bachelordom
Definition:
(n.) The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.
Bachelorhood
Definition:
(n.) The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was also observed that the 'long-distance marriage' ('business bachelorhood') peculiar to Japanese occupations had little influence on the impairment levels.
(2) For his late-flowering bachelorhood, Lynton bought a flat in Brighton and stuffed it with paintings.
(3) Not even by social factors (social class of parental family, bachelorhood rate, childlessness, and late marriage) could late schizophrenia be reliably distinguished from other schizophrenias.
(4) In a study of 82 obsessional neurotics, it was found that Indian obsessives, unlike their counterparts in other countries, do not display a higher than expected rate of celibacy, bachelorhood, and low fertility.
(5) "Long-distance marriage" ("business bachelorhood"), peculiar to Japanese occupations, had little influence on depressive symptomatology.