interfandom

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adjective

Occurring within or involving multiple fandoms.

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Meanings

adjectiveinterfandom (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring within or involving multiple fandoms.

    Their [Benedict Cumberbatch fans'] reception of, and engagement with, his portrayal as Richard III through playful fan practices demonstrates the interfandom crossover.

    2018, Marina Gerzic, “Re-fashioning Richard II: Intertextuality, Fandom, and the (Mobile) Body in The Hollow Crown: The War of the Rose”, in Marina Gerzic, Aidan Norrie, editors, From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past, unnumbered page
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    The widespread interfandom jargon of one's fic being "Jossed" (or invalidated by new canon material, a term derived from Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon), or for elements of a still-incomplete fanfic to be negated or rendered implausible by the development of the canon text, speaks to the creative stakes in authoring fan texts that strive for fidelity.

    2008, Tiffany Potter, C. W. Marshall, editors, Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica, page 214

    Is Game of Thrones's Daenerys Targaryen Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin? […] Questions like these are raised in YouTube videos and on Reddit threads and Tumblr blogs as online interfandom communities use the Hogwarts Houses from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) to discuss and interpret characters, emphasizing the series' continuing relevance as it intersects with other popular fandoms.

    2019, Jessica Hautsch, “Buffy, Hamilton and Jon Snow Go to Hogwarts: Literary Affordance and the Hogwarts Houses as Interpretive Framework and Rhetorical Tool”, in Valerie Estelle Frankel, editor, Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter, unnumbered page

Origin

From inter- + fandom.

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APA

interfandom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interfandom

MLA

“interfandom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interfandom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interfandom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interfandom.

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