"fictionkin" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: fictionkin [plural]
Etymology: From fiction + -kin. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|fiction|kin|id2=kind}} fiction + -kin Head templates: {{en-noun|fictionkin}} fictionkin (plural fictionkin)
  1. An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind, whether it be as a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc. Depending on the individual, some who identify as fictionkin may also categorize their experience as an experience within otherkinity or therianthropy. Categories (topical): Fandom, Otherkin, People Synonyms: fickin, fictkin, fictionkind, mediakin, otakukin [dated]
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          "text": "Once such group's members subscribe to a metaphysics that considers fictional worlds fully real, or that regards what most view as reality as another fiction. Included here are fictionkin and mediakin, people who claim spiritual or soul […]",
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