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alethonymous en · ADJ

Etymology

From alethonym + -ous.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare) Of or pertaining to an alethonym (a true name).
   • These were later replaced by the alethonymous (if the word may be allowed) ones which are now in 1951, John Russell Scott for the Manchester Guardian, Limited (publisher), “A Century And A Centenary”, in The Manchester Guardian Weekly, volume 65, page 4:
   • Moreover, these affirmations of reason and knowledge tend to be hidden away in the less exciting, and therefore less read, portions of Kierkegaard's authorship, that is, either in the books to which he signed his own name—what I call alethonymous books—or in the two books by the pseudonymous author named Anti-Climacus. 2013, Richard McCombs, The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard:

Antonyms

pseudonymous

Synonyms

orthonymous

Translations (2)

de alethonym (of or pertaining to an alethonym (true name)) · fr aléthonyme (of or pertaining to an alethonym (true name))