Meanings
- slanguncountablelifestyleThe quality of being unfannish; behaviour inconsistent with being a fan.
Throwing anything away is unfannishness at its worst, fakefan.
2002 March 2, Marty Cantor, “Re: Accumulating Crap: A fan thing?”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <94e03a1e.0203020714.5255eaa6@posting.google.com>2 more examples
Saturday morning my body betrayed a certain basic unfannishness of constitution by waking me promptly at 6:40 a.m. (a pattern that repeated throughout the weekend, even after valiant efforts on Sunday night).
1997 March 21, Ulrika O'Brien, “Usenaut Guerrilla Walks Upright on Planet of the Apes (Damn Long)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <5gsq6u$pru@news.service.uci.edu>There is a risk of developing a sub-con where the hip hide, a nasty unfannishness we’d better not fall into.
2004 July, John Hertz, “John Hertz’s Westercon Notebook”, in File 770, number 143, page 28
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unfannishness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfannishness
“unfannishness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfannishness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfannishness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfannishness.
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