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  • noun Plural form of mundane.

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Examples

  • He, like many living among the "mundanes," is charmed by magic to appear fully human so as not to arouse panic and undue attention from a bipedal, talking wolf walking around the city.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • He, like many living among the "mundanes," is charmed by magic to appear fully human so as not to arouse panic and undue attention from a bipedal, talking wolf walking around the city.

    Getting Graphic: "Fables: Legends in Exile" by Bill Willingham 2009

  • Many of his coworkers -- what the science fiction world called "mundanes" -- were aspiring writers who never managed to finish or submit stories.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • They think and live in a different mindspace than "mundanes" and there is a communications gap and giant gaps in other areas as to goals, values, interests, approaches to the universe, assumptions....

    Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

  • Along the way, and partially because the "mundanes," i.e., those who weren't science fiction fans, coöped the term and began mis-using it, it came to mean something different to hardcore fans of the genre.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • Science fiction fans call non-fans "mundanes," Martial artists believe in their hearts that their arts are superior.

    How Many Do You Know? Steven Barnes 2008

  • I don't want to close the field to 'mundanes'; I want to embrace them, to show them exactly why I think SFF is vital, important culture.

    Archive 2004-02-01 2004

  • I don't want to close the field to 'mundanes'; I want to embrace them, to show them exactly why I think SFF is vital, important culture.

    Childhood's End 2004

  • I don't want to close the field to 'mundanes'; I want to embrace them, to show them exactly why I think SFF is vital, important culture.

    The Problem of Humor 2004

  • I don't want to close the field to 'mundanes'; I want to embrace them, to show them exactly why I think SFF is vital, important culture.

    :criticism 2004

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