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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ fannish.

Adjective

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multifannish (not comparable)

  1. Encompassing or participating in multiple fandoms.
    • 2005 January 28, Angel, “Re: Is sex between Star Wars fans and Star Trek fans allowed?”, in rec.arts.startrek.current[1] (Usenet):
      Gotcha beat, my husband and I have 4. He's much more the Trek fan, while I'm multifannish. but SW is my first love.
    • 2010, Nicola Santilli, “Online Publishing: (Anime) Fan fiction and identity”, in Journal of Digital Research & Publishing, volume 3, number 1, page 43:
      Some fans enjoy the individualised discourse of blogs like LiveJournal that permit ‘multifannish [multifandom] interaction’ and more personal conversation; others dislike it for the same reasons (Busse & Hellekson 2006, p. 15)
    • 2011, Lynn Zubernis & Katherine Larsen (quoting an Archive of Our Own policy page), Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012), →ISBN, page 19:
      It is multifannish and built on open-source archiving software designed and built by and for fans.

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