pseudonymous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pseudōnymus, from Ancient Greek ψευδώνῠμος (pseudṓnumos).[1] By surface analysis, pseudonym + -ous.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pseudonymous (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudonymous, superlative most pseudonymous)
- Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.
- (of a name) Fictitious.
- 1984 August 18, Victoria A. Brownworth, “Rights Require Responsibility”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 9:
- The abuse of children that goes on under the pseudonymous and euphemistic titles of "intergenerational sex" and "sexual liberation."
- That uses a pseudonym.
- 2006, Penny McCarthy, Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle[1]:
- 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.
- (computing, law) Pertaining to pseudonymization.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “pseudonymous, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
