Word.ws English Dictionary

nymwars

nymwars noun: conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.

Noun

nymwars pl (plural only)

  1. (Internet, neologism, plural, plural-only) Conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.

Origin of nymwars

From nym + wars.

Questions about nymwars

What does nymwars mean?
Nymwars means conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.
What part of speech is nymwars?
Nymwars is a noun.

Words near nymwars in the dictionary

  1. nymshifted
  2. nymshifter
  3. nymshifters
  4. nymshifting
  5. nymshifts
  6. nymwars
  7. nynanthean
  8. nynantheans
  9. Nynehead
  10. Nyngan
  11. Nynorsk

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nymwars (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nymwars.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nymwars. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.