heteronyms

Noun

heteronym (plural heteronyms)

1. (dated) Calque.
2. A word having the same spelling as another, but with a different meaning and (often) pronunciation.
   • Near-synonyms: heterophone, homograph

   Synonyms:

   heterophone, homograph

3. A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
   • […] the present paper aims at illuminating the origins of the concept under study, as well as presenting its readers with the reasons why certain characters in some of Yeats’s works go beyond mere masks and personae and fulfil the criteria to be considered as heteronyms.2018, Hamid Ghahremani Kouredarei, Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam, “W.B. Yeats and the Introduction of Heteronym into the Western Literary Canon”, in Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, volume 8...