mundane

mundane n.

[from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom. 2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life...." See also Real World, muggle.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Mun"dane (?), a. [L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. ma&nsdot;&dsdot; to adorn, dress, ma&nsdot;&dsdot;a adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.]

Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere.

The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor.

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