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(fandom slang) The quality of being fannish; behaviour consistent with being a fan..
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.
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.
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.
Use fannishness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fannishness means (fandom slang) The quality of being fannish; behaviour consistent with being a fan..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include unfannishness.
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.
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