Nonname

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something, such as a word, that is not a name.

    "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; […]"

Example

More examples

"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; […]"

Etymology

From non- + name.

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