Mundaniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

mundane +‎ -ia.

名詞

mundania (uncountable)

1. (fandom スラング) The world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.
   • 1965 February 23, Chris Priest, “Postscripts”^[1], Hyphen, number 37: 

     In this way, you could liken mundania unto a sea, whose tides lap onto the beach of fandom. Each flow brings its quota of bright, bubbling neos--still tainted with mundania. Each ebb leaves a hardcore of driftwood, stranded forever in fandom.

   • 1999 April 15, Cally Soukup, "Fannish Accent? Minicon panel (LONG)", message-ID <7f5o9g$ft2$1@wheel.two14.lan>, rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet link:

     This leads us to body language. Our body language is also different from mundanes. We tend to not use eye contact nearly as often; when we do, it often signifies that it's the other person's turn to speak now. This is opposite of everyone else. In mundania, it's *breaking* eye contact that signals turn-taking, not *making* eye contact.

   • 2004 April, Alan & DeDee White, “Saturday, March 20th / The Fear of Beer”, Black Cat, number 1, page 7: 

     The problem with living so close to a convention finds the call of mundania beckoning one home and thus we spent most of the day, missing the trivia contest that I would have stunk at anyway, and as I understand it, Sandra Bond shellacked the local boys!

   • 2008, “Denvention 3: Program Participant Biographies”, The Fanac Fan History Project, accessed on 2014-11-04:

     Gary Ehrlich stalks the hallways of Northeast conventions and assorted filk conventions. A mild-manner^[sic] structural engineer in mundania, at cons he can be found on stage or in the filk room offering songs of space flight, lunar colonies and hyperspace hotels.

   • 2012, Lizzie Stark, Leaving Mundania, ISBN 9781613740675, page 9:

     Verva Malone was from a 1920s world, because I liked the that era's style so much that I sported a bob haircut with bangs during my hours in “mundania,” as larpers occasionally termed real life.

同意語

• mainstream
• real life

反意語

• fandom