moonhood en · NOUN
Etymology
From moon + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being a moon.
Although they deserve moonhood every bit as much as their larger cousins, irregular satellites continue to puzzle planetary scientists.
2001, Mercury, volume 30, page 82:Calling Charon a moon, rather than a junior partner in a coalition, is thus stretching the definition of moonhood.
2000 September 28, “Pluto plus tard”, in The Economist:In fact, some of the smaller of the moons of Jupiter's 63 known moons may have taken this path to moonhood.
2005 October 6, Robert Young, Paul Wallace, “Keep an eye towards the sky: Cedartown stargazers' journal”, in The Cedartown Standard, page 4B: