granfalloon

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌɡɹæn.fəˈluːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of two or more people who imagine or are manipulated to believe they share a connection based on some circumstance of little or no real significance.
    — Gamers are nothing but members of an enormous granfalloon. The word [gamers] totally fails to accurately describe anything about a person when it comes to capturing their interests in interactive entertainment, and yet many gaming enthusiasts cling to the term and make it a facet of their identity.

词形变化

granfalloons plural

词源

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle, in which Vonnegut described the term as referencing a false karass, or "a proud and meaningless association of human beings"; later adopted by market researchers and social scientists.
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