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non-name

non-name is the alternative form of nonname.

Meaning of nonname

Noun

nonname (plural nonnames)

  1. Something, such as a word, that is not a name.
    • There are at least two separate categories of unnameables: first, there are big unnameables, with various deictic nonnames such as I am that I am, Yahweh, the Other, the Real, an outside always to come, and so on; […]2012, Jonathan Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan, page 226

Forms of non-name

pluralnon-names

Questions about non-name

What is non-name the alternative form of?
Non-name is the alternative form of nonname.

Words near non-name in the dictionary

  1. non-musculoskeletal
  2. non-Muslim
  3. non-Muslims
  4. non-mycorrhizal
  5. non-myeloablative
  6. non-name
  7. non-names
  8. non-nano
  9. non-narrative
  10. non-national
  11. non-nationals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-name (page history and authors); nonname (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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