anonymity

Noun

anonymity (countable and uncountable, plural anonymities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being anonymous (nameless or unidentified).
   • She's garbed her philanthropic activities in anonymity.
   • Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
     Circling in singles and in pairs
     In this vigorous anonymity1976, Joni Mitchell, Song for Sharon

   Synonyms:

   anonymousness, anonymosity

   Antonyms:

   onymity

2. (countable) That which is anonymous.
   • In one sense the protagonist is the poet himself, but in another sense he is an anonymity.2006, Jatindra Mohan Mohanty, History of Oriya Literature, page 516
3. (uncountable) The quality or state of being generally unknown, unrecognized, or uncelebrated.
   • The profiteer who through a combine fleeces the public would scorn to wrong a friend or betray those of his own household. The problem then resolves itself into a question of the elimination of the impersonality, the anonymity of modern life that is made an excuse for moral irresponsibility.1920, John M[offatt] Mecklin, “The Traits of the Great Society as Illustrated by the Corporation”, in An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt...
   • Actually, pin-striped anonymity in the city once seemed a more likely destination. He was a nervous, awkward teenager, six-foot by the age of 12, six-five fully grown, always trying to appear nicer and more orthodox than he felt he really was.1978 April 23–29, “Ex-Python John Cleese sets up ‘Fawlty Towers’”, in TV Week (Tallahassee Democrat), Tallahassee, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2