nonname

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Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ name

Noun[edit]

nonname (plural nonnames)

  1. Something, such as a word, that is not a name.
    • 2012, Jonathan Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan, page 226:
      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; []