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passwordlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From password + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a password.
   • ...something like words, or better, passwordlike names, those of newborn children or dead relatives. 1998, Serge Leclaire, A child is being killed: on primary narcissism and the death drive:
   • The biblical phrase, "the son of perdition," also has certain passwordlike qualities. In essence, those four words are like a special code. 2005, Steve Wohlberg, End Time Delusions:

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