fanac

noun
/ˈfæn.æk/

Etymology

Shortened fan + activity.

  1. derived from activitas
  2. borrowed from activité
  3. compounded as fanac — “fan + activity

Definitions

  1. The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction.

    • This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.
    • It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.
    • The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fanac. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA