fannishness
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fannishness (uncountable)
- (fandom slang) The quality of being fannish; behaviour consistent with being a fan.
- 1913, Frederick Courtenay Barber, “The Star Ball-Players and Their Earnings”, in Munsey's Magazine[1], volume 49, page 214:
- If you're an ordinarily enthusiastic fan, you may see it or you may not. If your fannishness is of the deckle-edged, double-breasted, inner-tube, twin-cylinder variety, you're sure to know it.
- 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II[2], True Fan:
- In connection with TAFF a furor arose over the definition of a Trufan, the active faction insisting that a trufan exhibit his quality by some sort of fanac -- crifanac for choice -- while others maintained that nomination to or interest in so stefnistic an enterprise as TAFF was sufficient to prove fannishness.
- 2012, John Bale, Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile, →ISBN, page 11:
- It is not only my former fannishness that I bring to this book. I have a background as a (former) club-level runner, which means that, to some extent, I can identify with the protocols of running and racing.
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- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “fannishness”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 58.