mundaneとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /mʌnˈdeɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn

形容詞

mundane (comparative mundaner, superlative mundanest)

1. Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
2. Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.

3. Ordinary; not new.
4. Tedious; repetitive and boring.

派生語

• submundane
• supermundane
• transmundane
• ultramundane

同意語

• (of the earth): worldly
• (ordinary, tedious): banal, boring, commonplace, everyday, routine, workaday, jejune, pedestrian

反意語

• arcane
• heavenly

参照

• “mundane” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

名詞

mundane (複数形 mundanes)

1. An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
2. (slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
   • 1959 December 1, Bennett, Ron, Skyrack‎^[1], number 10:

     THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m.

   • 1989 Spring, Person, Lawrence, “Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom”, in Nova Express, volume 2, number 3 (whole number #7), page 10:

     The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’

   • 1996, "Angel of Death", furries vs. mundanes (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.fan.furry)

     Some people just think your ^[sic] a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot ^[sic] of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.

3. (fandom スラング) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
   • 1966 November, Hoffman, Lee, “Our Authors”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎^[2], number 4, page 35:

     Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.

同意語

• (ordinary person): See Thesaurus:mundane
• (mainstream person): See Thesaurus:mainstreamer

派生語

• mundanely
• mundaneness
• mundanity

参考

• mundane on Wikipedia.Article on the use of “mundane” as a derogatory term.

アナグラム

• unnamed

Latin

形容詞

mundāne

1. vocative masculine singular of mundānus