semifame

Etymology

From semi- + fame.

semifame means minor fame. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Minor fame.“He was most excited about the festival’s obscurities, like the series of Latin American and Spanish films, his latest passions, and the appearance by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the Texas wild man whose brief moment of semifame, the 1968 single “Paralyzed,” inspired Mr. Bowie’s glam-era alter ego, Ziggy Stardust.”