subfandom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sub- +‎ fandom

Noun[edit]

subfandom (plural subfandoms)

  1. A subdivision of a larger fandom or fan community.
    • 1981, David Cowart, Thomas L. Wymer, editors, Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers‎[1], page 292:
      By the mid-1960s, these fanzines, representing subfandoms to general science-fiction fandom, gained as never before.
    • 1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth‎[2], page 39:
      A subfandom for her own work has grown within the media-SF communities.
    • 1992, Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television, Fans, & Participatory Culture‎[3], pages 259–260:
      Filker Mark Blackman (Personal Interview, 1989) predicts that as filking becomes more widespread, it may subdivide into more specialized subfandoms […]
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