Anonymousness

a·non·y·mous  (-nn-ms)

adj.

1. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.

2. Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call.

3. Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: "a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace" Alan Paton.

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[From Late Latin annymus, from Greek annumos, nameless : an-, without; see a-¹ + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nnumnos, nameless); see n-men- in Indo-European roots.]

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a·nony·mous·ly adv.

a·nony·mous·ness n.