pseudonymous

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English

Etymology

From Latin pseudōnymus, from Ancient Greek ψευδώνῠμος (pseudṓnŭmos). By surface analysis, pseudonym +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s(j)uːˈdɒ.nɪ.məs/

Adjective

pseudonymous (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudonymous, superlative most pseudonymous)

  1. Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.
  2. (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."
  3. That uses a pseudonym.
    • 2006, Penny McCarthy, Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle‎:
      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.
  4. (computing, law) Pertaining to pseudonymization.

References

  1. ^ “pseudonymous, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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