pseudonymous — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually

2. Fictitious.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually
   • of a name

   Examples

   The abuse of children that goes on under the pseudonymous and euphemistic titles of "intergenerational sex" and "sexual liberation."

3. That uses a pseudonym.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

4. Pertaining to pseudonymization.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually

Adjective

1. bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name

   Examples

   the writings of Mark Twain are pseudonymous