pseudonymous

Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.
  2. Fictitious.
    • The abuse of children that goes on under the pseudonymous and euphemistic titles of "intergenerational sex" and "sexual liberation." - 1984 August 18, Victoria A. Brownworth, “Rights Require Responsibility”, in Gay...
  3. That uses a pseudonym.
    • My angle has been more positivistic, my interest arising not out of the general phenomenon of pseudonymity, but out of particular puzzles posed by particular texts assigned to one pseudonymous writer. - 2006, Penny...
  4. Pertaining to pseudonymization.

Origin

From Latin pseudōnymus, from Ancient Greek ψευδώνῠμος (pseudṓnŭmos). By surface analysis, pseudonym + -ous.

Forms

more pseudonymous most pseudonymous

Related

onymous anonymous pseudonym

Derived

polypseudonymous pseudonymously pseudonymousness