buffery

English

Etymology

buff +‎ -ery

Noun

buffery (uncountable)

1. The quality of being a buff or enthusiast; a keen interest in something; fandom.
   • 2013, Gunnar Hansen, Chain Saw Confidential:

     The first phase was a sudden fashion among the film buffs, some of whom latched on to the picture with the enthusiasm that suggests that film buffery, that beguiling beacon of Sixties taste, has slid into some really desperate final phase.

   • 1979, Take One, volume 7, page 35:

     What distinguishes a film buff from someone who simply loves going to the movies? Is buffery a hobby, a vocation, a stage of development or a pathology?