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cryptonymies

cryptonymies is the plural of cryptonymy.

Meaning of cryptonymy

Noun

cryptonymy (plural cryptonymies)

  1. The use of code names or cryptonyms.
    • The concepts of cryptonymy and preservative repression (the latter discussed directly below) stipulate the collapse of the revelatory properties of the symptom and language.1994, Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok, Nicholas Thomas Rand, The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, →ISBN

Questions about cryptonymies

What is cryptonymies the plural of?
Cryptonymies is the plural of cryptonymy.

Words near cryptonymies in the dictionary

  1. cryptonloid
  2. cryptonloids
  3. cryptons
  4. cryptonym
  5. cryptonymic
  6. cryptonymies
  7. cryptonymous
  8. cryptonyms
  9. cryptonymy
  10. cryptopatch
  11. cryptopatches

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