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subfandom

noun

Etymology

From sub- + fandom.

Definitions

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

    • By the mid-1960s, these fanzines, representing subfandoms to general science-fiction fandom, gained as never before.
    • A subfandom for her own work has grown within the media-SF communities.
    • Filker Mark Blackman (Personal Interview, 1989) predicts that as filking becomes more widespread, it may subdivide into more specialized subfandoms […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subfandom. 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