fannishness n.

Few fans have any great degree of specialized knowledge or training, and where it does exist it seems to be beside the point and have little bearing on their fannishness.

We would like to tell you a tale that beautifuly [sic] illustrates this curious facet of fannishness.

In connection with TAFF a furor arose over the definition of a Trufan, the active faction insisting that a trufan exhibit his quality by some sort of fanac—crifanac for choice—while others maintained that nomination to or interest in so stefnistic an enterprise as TAFF was sufficient to prove fannishness.

To paraphrase a recent Jewish intellectual, I must take odds with Mr. Carter and expostulate that fan magazines are not only predominately anti-intellectual, but their cataleptic headache powders of frivolous ‘fannishness’ are guaranteed not to activate the social conscience, elevate the blood pressure, or agitate the colon.

The most famous science fiction writers had lives that occasionally brushed early stirrings of fannishness.

Eventually she had had to watch what she said around him because she couldn’t be sure that he wouldn’t denounce her for fannishness to the University.

I decided that not only did comics fandom need to upgrade its level of critical discourse, but also replace its growing commercialism with SF-style fannishness.

Although children have historically been excluded from much of fan-organized fandom, the idea of fannishness is intertwined with that of childishness, raising questions about maturity and seriousness in the fan experience.