Anorak energy is the vibe someone gives off when they're clearly running on deep niche enthusiasm — that particular combination of intensity, precision, and cheerful indifference to whether anyone else cares. Someone with anorak energy doesn't need an audience; they're going to tell you about the historical significance of this particular stretch of canal whether you asked or not, and they'll be genuinely delighted throughout. It's never aggressive, it's rarely annoying (for long), and it has an oddly infectious quality. Anorak energy is the opposite of cool posturing — it's pure, unadulterated passion for something extremely specific, and there's something quietly admirable about it.
The tour guide had major anorak energy — twenty minutes on Victorian drainage systems and somehow we loved it.
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