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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