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pseudonymous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /s(j)uːˈdɒ.nɪ.məs/

Etymology

From Latin pseudōnymus, from Ancient Greek ψευδώνῠμος (pseudṓnŭmos). By surface analysis, pseudonym + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, usually) Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.
  2. (not-comparable, of a name, usually) Fictitious.
    • The abuse of children that goes on under the pseudonymous and euphemistic titles of "intergenerational sex" and "sexual liberation." 1984 August 18, Victoria A. Brownworth, “Rights Require Responsibility”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 9:
  3. (not-comparable, usually) That uses a pseudonym.
    • My angle has been more positivistic, my interest arising not out of the general phenomenon of pseudonymity, but out of particular puzzles posed by particular texts assigned to one pseudonymous writer. 2006, Penny McCarthy, Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle:
  4. (not-comparable, usually) Pertaining to pseudonymization.

Forms

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most pseudonymous Degree=Sup lexicographic
more pseudonymous Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

polypseudonymous · pseudonymousness · pseudonymously

Relateds

pseudonym · onymous · anonymous

Translations (1)

es pseudónimo (Translations)