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Fandom vs Faydom - What's the difference?

fandom | faydom |

As nouns the difference between fandom and faydom

is that fandom is the fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc, taken as a group while faydom is the state of being fay or doomed.

fandom

English

(wikipedia fandom)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group.
  • The subculture of fans.

    • Synonyms

    * (fans of something taken as a group) fan base, fanship

    Antonyms

    * (fans of something taken as a group) anti-fandom, hatedom

    faydom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being fay or doomed.
  • (dialectal) A portent, usually of death; doom.
  • *2005 , John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet :
    • Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?
  • *1998 , George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz :
    • He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom .
  • *1853 , Charles Dickens, Household words :
    • [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.