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panfandom

panfandom adjective: occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom.

Adjective

panfandom (not comparable)

  1. Occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom.
    • […] scholars of fanfiction might instead question how this piece responds to the panfandom trend toward feminizing one male participant in a slash relationship (alluded to in Kustritz and Jenkins).2008, Amelia Bitely, "'An Improbable Fiction': How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare", thesis submitted to Marietta College, page 70
    • Additionally, the multiple-fandom affordances of Livejournal have made "panfandom" FRPGs quite common-in these games, characters come from across multiple media sources and converge in a single world.2013, Casey Fiesler, “Pretending without a License: Intellectual Property and Gender Implications in Online Games”, in Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal, volume 9, number 1, pages 16–17

Origin of panfandom

From pan- + fandom.

Questions about panfandom

What does panfandom mean?
Panfandom means occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom.
What part of speech is panfandom?
Panfandom is an adjective.

Words near panfandom in the dictionary

  1. panexperientialist
  2. panexperientialists
  3. panface
  4. panfaces
  5. panfacial
  6. panfandom
  7. Panfil
  8. Panfils
  9. panfish
  10. panfishes
  11. panfishing

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