Aptonymy

Synonyms for "aptonymy"

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  • aptonymie noun (An aptonym situation)

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Now, I don't know whether this is an example of nominative determinism – a phrase coined by the New Scientist to describe the phenomenon of one's name determining one's career – or aptonymy, the more coincidental occurrence of one's name being particularly fitting for one's personality, but I came across several such examples in the birding world.

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The aptonym has become nowadays the study object of the science called aptonymy.

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