mundania
mundania noun: the world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.
Noun
mundania (uncountable)
- The world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.
- In this way, you could liken mundania unto a sea, whose tides lap onto the beach of fandom. Each flow brings its quota of bright, bubbling neos--still tainted with mundania. Each ebb leaves a hardcore of driftwood, stranded forever in fandom.1965 February 23, Chris Priest, “Postscripts”, in Hyphen, number 37, published 1987
- This leads us to body language. Our body language is also different from mundanes. We tend to not use eye contact nearly as often; when we do, it often signifies that it's the other person's turn to speak now. This is opposite of everyone else. In mundania, it's *breaking* eye contact that signals...1999 April 15, Cally Soukup, “Fannish Accent? Minicon panel (LONG)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <7f5o9g$ft2$1@wheel.two14.lan>
- Synonyms:
- mainstream, real life
Examples of mundania in a sentence
- In mundania, it's *breaking* eye contact that signals turn-taking, not *making* eye contact.1999 April 15, Cally Soukup, “Fannish Accent? Minicon panel (LONG)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID...
- A mild-manner^([sic]) structural engineer in mundania, at cons he can be found on stage or in the filk room offering songs of space flight, lunar colonies and hyperspace hotels.2008, “Denvention 3: Program Participant Biographies”, in The Fanac Fan History Project, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2014:
- Verva Malone was from a 1920s world, because I liked the that era's style so much that I sported a bob haircut with bangs during my hours in “mundania,” as larpers occasionally termed real life.2012, Lizzie Stark, Leaving Mundania, →ISBN, page 9:
Synonyms of mundania
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Forms of mundania
| alternative form | Mundania |
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Origin of mundania
From mundane + -ia.
Questions about mundania
- What does mundania mean?
- Mundania means the world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.
- How do you use mundania in a sentence?
- In mundania, it's *breaking* eye contact that signals turn-taking, not *making* eye contact.
- What part of speech is mundania?
- Mundania is a noun.
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