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These are lists of terms in various subject areas. This category should be distinguished from :Category:Glossaries, which lists articles containing terms and their definitions. See also List of glossaries.
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:For all uses of the terms "Muggle" and "Muggles" other than those related to "Harry Potter", see Muggle (disambiguation)
Muggle is the word used in the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling to refer to a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world. (A non-magical person who has wizards for parents is a Squib.) The word occurred in popular culture and literature prior to Rowling's adoption of it. However, the Harry Potter series popularised the word, and it has come into common usage in other contexts.
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:This page is about science fiction insider terminology. See Journal of Mundane Behavior for the scholarly journal. See Wiktionary for the adjective mundane. In science fiction and related fandoms, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary.brown, rich ''Dr. Gafia's Fan Terms''
Some examples: * In science fiction fandom, some fans classify all non-fans as "mundanes."[[C. J. Cherryh|Cherryh, C. J.], "FIAWOL and All That"] * goths also commonly refer to non-goths as "mundanes" or "norms". Voltaire, "What is Goth?" * In historical reenactment fandom, too, such as the Society for Creative Anachronism, some participants classify all non-participants as "mundanes". Similarly, one's "mundane" name is the legal name one goes by in the outside world. "Mundanes," sometimes shortened to just "'danes" (not to be confused with people of Danish descent), is also a term for normal everyday clothes, as opposed to historical garb."The Fanfiction Glossary" * In the science fiction television series Babylon 5, telepathic humans (especially Psi Corps members) classify all non-telepathic humans as "mundanes". The classification is employed mainly, but not solely, by telepathic characters who have telepath-supremacist ideologies (such ideologies being one of the issues dealt with by the series), and was deliberately chosen to mirror the classification in science fiction fandom.Message by [[J. Michael Straczynski] on Byron's attitude towards "mundanes" in Babylon 5] * In fantasy literature the term or some equivalent is often used to apply to non-magical people or the non-magical society. It is used in Piers Anthony's Xanth novels, and Bill Willingham's comic book series Fables (often shortened to "mundies" in the latter). The Harry Potter series uses the term muggle in the same way. * In furry fandom, it is used to describe non-furries, or "humans".Simo, "The New Furry's Dictionary" * In sanguinarian circles the word "mundane" means "non sanguinarian", although some consider it derogatory. * In text-based online role-playing games, the term is commonly used to refer to the player as opposed to their character, typically shortened to "mun".
According to a document titled The Mundane Manifesto, mundane science fiction is science fiction which does not make use of interstellar travel or other common tropes of the genre.
Otherwise, within the scope of the software communities of free and open-source software some proponents of the respective movements classify those which do not know enough about their views as "mundanes", signifying their normalcy, their lack of being beyond the regular users of computers.