Meanings
- slanguncountablelifestyleThe 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.
1913, Frederick Courtenay Barber, “The Star Ball-Players and Their Earnings”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 49, page 2142 more examples
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.
1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, True FanIt 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.
2012, John Bale, Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile, →ISBN, page 11
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