mundania en · NOUN
Etymology
From mundane + -ia.
Meanings
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(slang, uncountable) The world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.
The problem with living so close to a convention finds the call of mundania beckoning one home and thus we spent most of the day, missing the trivia contest that I would have stunk at anyway, and as I understand it, Sandra Bond shellacked the local boys!
2004 April, Alan & DeDee White, “Saturday, March 20th / The Fear of Beer”, in Black Cat, number 1, page 7: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: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: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 turn-taking, not *making* eye contact.
1999 April 15, Cally Soukup, “Fannish Accent? Minicon panel (LONG)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <7f5o9g$ft2$1@wheel.two14.lan>:Gary Ehrlich stalks the hallways of Northeast conventions and assorted filk conventions. 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:
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| Mundania | alternative | lexicographic |