Comfortfic

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Fan fiction read in order to make oneself feel better when sad, ill, stressed, etc. slang, uncountable

    "I'm in need of some comfort fic - as opposed to comfort food - and this genre seems to fit the bill perfectly."

Example

More examples

"I'm in need of some comfort fic - as opposed to comfort food - and this genre seems to fit the bill perfectly."

Etymology

From comfort + fic, by analogy with comfort food.

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