"actifan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of active + fan.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Fans (people)",
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            "Culture",
            "Human",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
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            "Speculative fiction",
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          "ref": "1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3",
          "text": "If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92",
          "text": "Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, page 94",
          "text": "Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's \"good time\" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.",
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        "A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity."
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        "(dated, fandom slang) A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity."
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of active + fan.",
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    },
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, page 94",
          "text": "Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's \"good time\" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.",
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      ],
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