subfandom

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noun

A subdivision of a larger fandom or fan community.

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Meanings

nounsubfandom (plural subfandoms)

plural subfandoms

  1. A subdivision of a larger fandom or fan community.

    A subfandom for her own work has grown within the media-SF communities.

    1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, page 39
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    By the mid-1960s, these fanzines, representing subfandoms to general science-fiction fandom, gained as never before.

    1981, David Cowart, Thomas L. Wymer, editors, Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers, page 292

    Filker Mark Blackman (Personal Interview, 1989) predicts that as filking becomes more widespread, it may subdivide into more specialized subfandoms […]

    1992, Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television, Fans, & Participatory Culture, pages 259–260

Origin

From sub- + fandom.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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