nonname

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From non- +‎ name.

Noun

nonname (plural nonnames)

  1. Something, such as a word, that is not a name.
    • 2012, Jonathan Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan, page 226:
      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; […]
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.