sanditonian/ˌsæn.dɪˈtəʊ.ni.ən/EtymologyFrom Sanditon + -ian. Not used by Jane Austen herself.adjOf or relating to the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.“Parker himself is a model of bustling absurdity: a lover of healthful living, bathing machines, and the ‘Bracing Sea Air’ of Sanditon, a despiser of old-fashioned houses in ‘little contracted Nooks’, kitchen gardens (‘Who can endure a Cabbage Bed in October?’), and anyone who doubts the fact that Sanditon is ‘the very Spot which Thousands [seem] in need of’. On the rival attractions of Brinshore, ”nounAn inhabitant of the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.“It is fitting that all roads in the town Mr. Parker has “planned and built, and praised and puffed” (328) seem to lead to the circulating library, because Sanditonians like Parker, who has built on sand, seem immensely willing to invest in empty convention—in signs in the place of substance. […] Austen is being somewhat disingenuous here. She herself feels free to put novel slang into the mouth of”