subfandom

A subdivision of a larger fandom or fan community.

Noun

  1. A subdivision of a larger fandom or fan community.
    • By the mid-1960s, these fanzines, representing subfandoms to general science-fiction fandom, gained as never before. - 1981, David Cowart, Thomas L. Wymer, editors, Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers,...
    • A subfandom for her own work has grown within the media-SF communities. - 1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, page 39:
    • Filker Mark Blackman (Personal Interview, 1989) predicts that as filking becomes more widespread, it may subdivide into more specialized subfandoms […] - 1992, Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television, Fans, &...

Origin

From sub- + fandom.

Forms

subfandoms