Meanings
- not comparablerareOf 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 41 more example
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 KierkegaardSynonyms: orthonymous · Antonyms: pseudonymous
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
French aléthonyme
- aléthonymeof or pertaining to an alethonym (true name)
German alethonym
- alethonymof or pertaining to an alethonym (true name)
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alethonymous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alethonymous
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