Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being pseudonymous; the use of a pseudonym.
Pseudonymy, as a modern institution, can thus be contrasted to the mere anonymity of the copyist.
2003, David L. Eng, David Kazanjian, Loss: The Politics of Mourning, →ISBN, page 403 more examples
It is now well known that the Irish employed pseudonymy in their Latin writings of that period. Some famous examples are the Pseudo-Augustinian De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, the Pseudo-Isidorian De Ordine Creaturarum, and the Cosmographia of the so-called "Aethicus Ister", ascribed by H. Löwe to Vergil (Fergil), an eight-century Irish bishop of Salzburg.
1976, Ludwig Bieler, John Joseph O'Meara, Bernd Naumann, Latin Scripts and Letters A.D. 400-900, →ISBNThe consequences of accepting the pseudonymy hypothesis are similar to those of accepting the forgery hypothesis.
1987, Mary Ellen Waithe, A History of Women Philosophers - Volume 1, →ISBN[...] his pseudonymy and anonymity arguably provided necessary protection against censors, and his literary jokes were quite harmless.
2005, Julia Luisa Abramson, Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification, page 29Synonyms: pseudonymousness, pseudonymity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being pseudonymous; the use of a pseudonym.
Origin
- New Latinpseudōnymia
- Englishpseudonymy
From New Latin pseudōnymia, from pseudōnymus (“pseudonymous”) + -ia. By surface analysis, pseudo- + -onymy.
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French pseudonymie
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Latin pseudōnymia
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pseudonymy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudonymy
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