Meaning of fafiation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of fafiating; exiting involvement in fandom due to other obligations.
   slang
2. The state or result of having fafiated; having exited fandom due to other obligations.
   slang

Examples

“Having dropped back into rasff for a bit, I'm now dropping out again. Fall⟳ semester has started, and even with lots of filtering and aggressive ignoring of political threads, being a full-time parent and half-time graduate student doesn't leave⟳ time for Usenet. Even with three free mornings a week while Joseph's in pre-school.”

“A little happier, but still drained at this point⟳, fafiation could now occur⟳.”

“Tadao Tomomatsu may have⟳ announced his gafiation, but he is still busy on Facebook with the odd general announcement. Think⟳ this is more a fafiation?”

“I leapt at the chance to go to Nursing school. It wasn’t easy, but I made it through — though at the cost⟳ of near total fafiation for two years — and today I work⟳ as a surgical nurse in a large regional hospital in East Tennessee.”

“Something happened to this newsgroup during my fafiation.”

“I'm afraid that I've never met his second wife, Laura Brodian, as (like⟳ so many medical fen) I suffered FAFIAtion when I got stuck into building my practice.”

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