Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being pseudonymous, or of bearing a false name or signature; the act or practice of writing under an assumed name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The using of fictitious names, as by authors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
pseudonymous , of hiding one's true identity behind apseudonym
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everything that he wrote while safely wrapped in pseudonymity is public.
Waldo Jaquith - You’re never anonymous on the internet. 2007
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Perhaps being away from the blog, and in the “real world” of my work and the bloggers I know who function in it, I realized that to continue writing this sort of a blog, my pseudonymity is no longer viable.
Kalamazoo '07: Claiming My Voice Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Perhaps being away from the blog, and in the “real world” of my work and the bloggers I know who function in it, I realized that to continue writing this sort of a blog, my pseudonymity is no longer viable.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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I am almost grateful (though I’m not sure Publius is) to Whelan for his puerile display of pique, since it at least has brought this conversation to the fore, and has highlighted why pseudonymity is an integral part of Internet media.
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And I also believe that a lot of people are not that interested in pseudonymity.
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Count me among those befuddled by the apparent widespread confusion between "pseudonymity" and "anonymity".
Pseuds vs anons Doctor Science 2009
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Count me among those befuddled by the apparent widespread confusion between "pseudonymity" and "anonymity".
Archive 2009-06-01 Doctor Science 2009
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Blogs are also criticized, for their "standardized designs" that encourage "pseudonymity" in features like blog comments.
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While there is some evidence that pseudonyms and anonymity might lead to bad behavior, that is not the kind of pseudonymity that I am speaking about.
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Though admittedly I don't spend enough time clarifying that I am only talking about a particular kind of pseudonymity which I find pious, that is in fact my intent.
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