professordom en · NOUN
Etymology
From professor + -dom.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The realm or sphere of professors; professors, collectively.
For this reason, I would like to focus on a chink in the armour of professordom: on one of the facets of literary art to which academics pay insufficient attention.
2002, Stephen Henighan, When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing, page 109:He thinks that by nursing this gigantic reverence for the idea of professordom, such reverence will, somehow, be extended all over society, till the professor becomes a creature of power, of public notoriety, of independent reputation as he is in Germany.
1913, James McKeen Cattell, University control, page 457:Another, the fifth, year of professordom is expiring this week.
1989, Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, page 107: