fannishness

English

Etymology

From fannish +‎ -ness.

Noun

fannishness (uncountable)

1. (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.

Antonyms

• unfannishness

References

• 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.