heteronym

plural heteronyms

1. datedhuman sciencesCalque.First known use 1885
2. human sciencesA word having the same spelling as another, but with a different meaning and (often) pronunciation.First known use 1889

   Near-synonyms: heterophone, homograph

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   The word lead (/ˈlɛd/), for the metal, and lead (/ˈliːd/), for a leash, are heteronyms.

   The word agape, "astonished" or "wide open," is a heteronym of agape, "Christian love."

   Synonyms: heterophone, homograph

3. literatureA fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.

   Heteronyms are the distinct poetic personae that Pessoa adopted during the writing of his poems, and who were presented as their true authors.

   2021, Niall Kennedy, “The Intercessor or Heteronym in Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa”, in Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, editors, Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 274

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   […] the present paper aims at illuminating the origins of the concept under study, as well as presenting its readers with the reasons why certain characters in some of Yeats’s works go beyond mere masks and personae and fulfil the criteria to be considered as heteronyms.

   2018, Hamid Ghahremani Kouredarei, Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam, “W.B. Yeats and the Introduction of Heteronym into the Western Literary Canon”, in Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, volume 8, number 8, →DOI, page 357