Sercon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sercon is an adjective meaning (dated, fandom slang) Having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.
Meaning
(dated, fandom slang) Having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.
More Meanings
- (dated, fandom slang, derogatory) Taking science fiction too seriously; boring; pompous; self-important.
- (dated, fandom slang) A sercon fan; a fan interested in intellectual, rather than fannish, matters.
- (dated, fandom slang) A sercon activity; a serious and scholarly activity.
Example Sentences
This seems to have been a sercon, dull group for the first few years.
Puns and similar witticisms are irrepressibly scattered all thru fan writings, even the most sercon.
Carl even established a false identity for himself (!!) as "Norman Sanfield Harris" a sercon-fuggheaded type.
This flyer arrived in early December, all in Spanish and seems very sercon, even pompous, but the reptiloid alien on the front is suitably silly.
Word Forms
- sercons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recondite, sciencey, connoisseurish, somnetic, stefnal, syconial.
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