fafiation

English

Etymology

From FAFIA (“forced away from it all”) +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌfæfiˈeɪʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

fafiation (plural fafiations)

(fandom slang) The act of fafiating; exiting involvement in fandom due to other obligations.
- 2004 September 24, Morris M. Keesan, “Fafiation”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <fda8l0p5m92qav0t0lblve03fgg2f30ted@4ax.com>:
  Having dropped back into rasff for a bit, I'm now dropping out again. Fall semester has started, and even with lots of filtering and aggressive ignoring of political threads, being a full-time parent and half-time graduate student doesn't leave time for Usenet. Even with three free mornings a week while Joseph's in pre-school.
- 2008 June, Nick Farey, “Egotorial”, in This Here...‎^[2], number 8.5, page 2:
  A little happier, but still drained at this point, fafiation could now occur.
- 2010 April, Lloyd Penney, “The Fanivore”, in File 770‎^[3], number 158, page 41:
  Tadao Tomomatsu may have announced his gafiation, but he is still busy on Facebook with the odd general announcement. Think this is more a fafiation?
- 2014, Curt Phillips, “Who is this “Curt Phillips” person, anyway?”, in Curt Phillips for TAFF!‎^[4], page 4:
  I leapt at the chance to go to Nursing school. It wasn’t easy, but I made it through — though at the cost of near total fafiation for two years — and today I work as a surgical nurse in a large regional hospital in East Tennessee.
(fandom slang) The state or result of having fafiated; having exited fandom due to other obligations.
- 2004 October 18, Doug Wickstrom, “The interminable political argument that swallowed rasff”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[5] (Usenet), message-ID <7j26n0984dfnq46n96o98f8k1et5ge8lnf@4ax.com>:
  Something happened to this newsgroup during my fafiation.
- 2005 January 2, SJ Doc, “Re: Frank Kelly Freas (1922-2005) R.I.P.”, in alt.fan.mike-jittlov‎^[6] (Usenet), message-ID <ffpit0liig7rdmqi6r7fn7r3o1gfaufoja@4ax.com>:
  I'm afraid that I've never met his second wife, Laura Brodian, as (like so many medical fen) I suffered FAFIAtion when I got stuck into building my practice.

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