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名詞

fannishness (uncountable)

1. (fandom スラング) The quality of being fannish; behaviour consistent with being a fan.
   • 1913, Barber, Frederick Courtenay, “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, Eney, Richard "Dick" Harris, 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, Bale, John, Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile, ISBN 9781134281367, 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.

反意語

• unfannishness

参照

• “fannishness” in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, page 58.