gafiation

GAFIA +‎ -ation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡæfiˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

gafiation (countable and uncountable, plural gafiations)

1. (dated, fandom slang) The act of gafiating; a beginning or end of involvement in fandom.
   • 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II‎:

     Fifth Transition, from about the beginning of the Korean War to the last of 1951, saw a diffusion of interests in fandom, with a wartime boom in stf coinciding with Campbell's amazing advocacy of crackpottery like Dianetics while the Gafiation of opposition leaders like Rapp and the Insurgents left Tucker's Bloomington News Letter briefly the top fanzine.

   • 1969, Harry Warner, All Our Yesterdays:

     The average age of fans probably advanced with the progress of the decade, because many fans remained active right through it, to counterbalance the rejuvenation created by the gafiation of older fans and the appearance of neofans.

2. (dated, fandom slang) The state or result of having gafiated; having entered or exited fandom.
   • 1959, Dick Emey, Fancyclopedia II‎:

     Three or four issues of an OO, Night Action, were produced, but general gafiation ruined plans for what was essentially a DC-Michigan coalition.

   • 1977 Spring, Susan Wood, “Propellor Beanie”, in Algol, volume 14, number 2:

     Superfan Hughes recently printed a new Willis column presenting the Irish Legend's return to fandom, at the 1976 Eastercon, after an 11-year gafiation.

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• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “gafiation”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “gafiation n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.