fafiation

plural fafiations

1. slanglifestyleThe act of fafiating; exiting involvement in fandom due to other obligations.

   A little happier, but still drained at this point, fafiation could now occur.

   2008 June, Nick Farey, “Egotorial”, in This Here..., number 8.5, page 2

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   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.

   2004 September 24, Morris M. Keesan, “Fafiation”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <fda8l0p5m92qav0t0lblve03fgg2f30ted@4ax.com>

   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?

   2010 April, Lloyd Penney, “The Fanivore”, in File 770, number 158, page 41

   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.

   2014, Curt Phillips, “Who is this “Curt Phillips” person, anyway?”, in Curt Phillips for TAFF!, page 4

2. slanglifestyleThe state or result of having fafiated; having exited fandom due to other obligations.

   Something happened to this newsgroup during my fafiation.

   2004 October 18, Doug Wickstrom, “The interminable political argument that swallowed rasff”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <7j26n0984dfnq46n96o98f8k1et5ge8lnf@4ax.com>

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   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.

   2005 January 2, SJ Doc, “Re: Frank Kelly Freas (1922-2005) R.I.P.”, in alt.fan.mike-jittlov (Usenet), message-ID <ffpit0liig7rdmqi6r7fn7r3o1gfaufoja@4ax.com>