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| ==Origin== | | ==Origin== |
− | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''mondeyne'', from Anglo-French ''mundain'', from Late Latin ''mundanus'', from Latin ''mundus'' world. Classical [[Latin]] ''mundānus'' belonging to the world, [[earthly]], relating to the [[universe]], [[cosmic]] (earliest attested 2nd cent. a.d. in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuleius Apuleius] | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''mondeyne'', from Anglo-French ''mundain'', from Late Latin ''mundanus'', from Latin ''mundus'' world. Classical [[Latin]] ''mundānus'' belonging to the world, [[earthly]], relating to the [[universe]], [[cosmic]] (earliest attested 2nd cent. a.d. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuleius Apuleius] |
− | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] | + | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1: of, relating to, or characteristic of the world | | *1: of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
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| In subcultural and [[fiction]]al uses, a '''mundane''' is a [[person]] who does not belong to a particular [[group]], according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking [[imagination]], are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. In [[science fiction]] fandom and related fandoms the term is used to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955. | | In subcultural and [[fiction]]al uses, a '''mundane''' is a [[person]] who does not belong to a particular [[group]], according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking [[imagination]], are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. In [[science fiction]] fandom and related fandoms the term is used to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955. |
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− | Prolific F&SF author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Anthony Piers Anthony] took the concept one step further in the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s seventies] and eighties geographically defining a ''Mundania'', within which [[magic]] was virtually [[unknown]] in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanth_series Xanth series] (1977) and employed the [[concept]] further in exploring and exploiting the [[contrast]] between two [[duality]] of [[reality]] universes in his 1980 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Adept Apprentice Adept] book series—where much of the plot is dependent upon [[tension]] between a [[magic]] world and a [[machine]] world (The Mundane) that can hardly be more [[different]]. | + | Prolific F&SF author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Anthony Piers Anthony] took the concept one step further in the late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s seventies] and eighties geographically defining a ''Mundania'', within which [[magic]] was virtually [[unknown]] in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanth_series Xanth series] (1977) and employed the [[concept]] further in exploring and exploiting the [[contrast]] between two [[duality]] of [[reality]] universes in his 1980 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Adept Apprentice Adept] book series—where much of the plot is dependent upon [[tension]] between a [[magic]] world and a [[machine]] world (The Mundane) that can hardly be more [[different]]. |
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