anonymization

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noun

The act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.

“This anonymization site is supposed to keep emails from being tracked back to you.”

OriginEnglish anonymize ← Late Latin anonymus ← Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos) →
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Meanings

nounanonymization (countable and uncountable, plural anonymizations)

plural anonymizations · alternative anonymisation

  1. countableuncountableThe act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.

    This anonymization site is supposed to keep emails from being tracked back to you.

    1 more example

    This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data, and partly in recognition of the fact that in the future anonymisation will become increasingly harder as the application of AI to speech recognition continues to improve.

    2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*ə-
  4. Ancient Greekἀν- (an-)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
  6. Proto-Hellenic*ónomə
  7. Ancient Greekὄνυμα (ónuma)
  8. Ancient Greekἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos)
  9. Late Latinanonymus
  10. Englishanonym(ous)
  11. Englishanonymize
  12. Englishanonymization

From anonymize + -ation.

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Translations

Catalan anonimització
  • anonimitzacióact of making anonymous
Dutch anonimisering
  • anonimiseringact of making anonymous
French anonymisation
  • anonymisationact of making anonymous
German Anonymisierung
  • Anonymisierungact of making anonymous
Italian anonimizzazione
  • anonimizzazioneact of making anonymous
Latin anōnymizātiō
  • anōnymizātiōact of making anonymous
Malay penanpanamaan, anonimisasi
  • penanpanamaanact of making anonymous
  • anonimisasiact of making anonymous
  • penganonimusanact of making anonymous
Polish anonimizacja
  • anonimizacjaact of making anonymous
Portuguese anonimização
  • anonimizaçãoact of making anonymous
Spanish anonimización
  • anonimizaciónact of making anonymous
Swedish anonymisering
  • anonymiseringact of making anonymous
Cite this entry
APA

anonymization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anonymization

MLA

“anonymization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anonymization. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anonymization,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anonymization.

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