dandere

Borrowed from Japanese ダンデレ (dandere), a portmanteau of 黙り (danmari, “keeping completely silent”), emphatic noun form of verb 黙る (damaru, “to be silent”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).^[1]

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dandere (plural dandere or danderes)

1. (chiefly Japanese fiction) A character archetype who stays silent, not expressing their feelings.
   • 2017, Luca Paolo Bruno, "Grand Narratives Blossom still: Character database and political narratives in the Muv Luv franchise", thesis submitted to Ca' Foscari University of Venice, page 13:

     A tsundere-type character will engender a hostile on the outside but sweet on the inside reaction towards the player, while a dandere will show little to know emotion except for subtle displays of affection.

   • 2019, Samneang Peo, "Visual Development Of A Visual Novel: Visual Storytelling in an Interactive Game", thesis submitted to South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, page 12:

     The kuudere and dandere characters have more reserved personalities, hence those qualities are also reflected in their designs.

   • 2022 March, Christopher B. Patterson, “Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels”, in American Literature, volume 94, number 1:

     Then there is Yuri, the blue oni to Natsuki’s red oni, who is shy, cute, and literary but hides a maddening love for the player; she is the archetypical dandere character thought to emerge from the blue-haired Rei Ayanami of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dandere.

• kamidere, kuudere, tsundere, yandere

• DeAndre, Deandre, dearned, dreaden

From French dandiner.

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dandere (imperative dander, infinitive at dandere, present tense danderer, past tense danderede, perfect tense danderet)

1. to dander (wander about)

• “dandere” in Den Danske Ordbog