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pseudonymity

pseudonymity noun: the state of being pseudonymous, of hiding one's true identity behind a pseudonym.

Noun

pseudonymity (usually uncountable, plural pseudonymities)

  1. (usually) The state of being pseudonymous, of hiding one's true identity behind a pseudonym.
    • To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that...1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132
    • Look, Mark, your attempt at pseudonymity is transparent.2009 January 11, William Safire, “Haircut”, in New York Times

Forms of pseudonymity

pluralpseudonymities

Origin of pseudonymity

From pseudonym + -ity.

Questions about pseudonymity

What does pseudonymity mean?
Pseudonymity means the state of being pseudonymous, of hiding one's true identity behind a pseudonym.
What part of speech is pseudonymity?
Pseudonymity is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudonymity?
The plural of pseudonymity is pseudonymities.

Words near pseudonymity in the dictionary

  1. pseudonymiser
  2. pseudonymisers
  3. pseudonymises
  4. pseudonymising
  5. pseudonymities
  6. pseudonymity
  7. pseudonymization
  8. pseudonymize
  9. pseudonymized
  10. pseudonymizer
  11. pseudonymizers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudonymity (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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