Meaning of mundania | Babel Free

Definitions

The world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.

slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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