Enthusiast vs Groupie - What's the difference?
enthusiast | groupie |
A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
(archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.
A young female fan of a rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person, usually a rock band member.
* 1999 , Lauraine Leblanc, Pretty in Punk: Girl?s Gender Resistance in a Boy?s Subculture , 2002,
* 2000 October, The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock'', '' ,
* 2012', Ginger Voight, '''''Groupie ,
As nouns the difference between enthusiast and groupie
is that enthusiast is a person filled with or guided by enthusiasm while groupie is a young female fan of a rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person, usually a rock band member.enthusiast
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(en noun)Synonyms
* addict * * amateur * fancier * fan * fanatic * fiend * freak * geek * junkie * rooter * maniac * partisan * power user (computing) * prosumer (marketing) * zealotSee also
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(wikipedia groupie)Noun
(en noun)page 47,
- In mainstream rock youth culture, female fans had only submissive roles in the consumption of rock music: they could be teenyboppers, and when they grew older, groupies', with the ' groupie role providing a real-life extension of the sexualized hero worship of the teenybopper.
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- Although Pamela Des Barres, rock?s most famous groupie', was passed around like a loose joint at a be-in, she maintains today, “There was no hierarchy. The ' groupies were not considered less than the musicians. We were muses.”
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- The groupie experience from what I?ve seen is quite similar to the experiences I?ve had as the “fat girl,” who had the good looking guy give her attention behind closed doors but never had the opportunity to be the gal on his arm, and it is that emotional integrity I brought to the book.