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allonymy

allonymy noun: the use of allonyms.

Noun

allonymy (usually uncountable, plural allonymies)

  1. (usually) The use of allonyms.
    • Allonymy, I think, should be distinguished from the ordinary indirect naming in that the former presupposes a habitual avoidance of the proper name of the person designated, as this is indeed already implied in the descriptions of Tylor and Winick.1961, Descriptive and Applied Linguistics - Volumes 1-5, page 35
    • The signatures appended to that story change and multiply, but only as allographs — the ghostly amanuensis displaced by his protean signature, an allonymy which screens out the aleatory signators by substituting itself in their vacated place.1986, Djelal Kadir, Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance, →ISBN, page 43

Forms of allonymy

pluralallonymies

Questions about allonymy

What does allonymy mean?
Allonymy means the use of allonyms.
What part of speech is allonymy?
Allonymy is a noun.
What is the plural of allonymy?
The plural of allonymy is allonymies.

Words near allonymy in the dictionary

  1. allonym
  2. allonymies
  3. allonymous
  4. allonymously
  5. allonyms
  6. allonymy
  7. alloo
  8. alloocimene
  9. allooctoploid
  10. allooctoploids
  11. allooed

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