anonymity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin anonymus or its etymon Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “anonymous”) + -ity. Compare French anonymité.
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: anonymities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being anonymous (nameless or unidentified).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
Circling in singles and in pairs
In this vigorous anonymity
Although the pen-and-paper questionnaires did not require students to give their names, the potential for the teacher to be able to recognise handwriting of individual students led to the perceived loss of anonymity.
"It really took off. People would literally come up to me in the street in New York saying 'Hey, Train Daddy, how's it goin'?'
 "I am quite enjoying the anonymity of London so far..."
 Given the high-profile task ahead of him, that isn't going to last for long.
gloss: That which is anonymous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In one sense the protagonist is the poet himself, but in another sense he is an anonymity.
gloss: The quality or state of being generally unknown, unrecognized, or uncelebrated.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The profiteer who through a combine fleeces the public would scorn to wrong a friend or betray those of his own household. The problem then resolves itself into a question of the elimination of the impersonality, the anonymity of modern life that is made an excuse for moral irresponsibility.
Actually, pin-striped anonymity in the city once seemed a more likely destination. He was a nervous, awkward teenager, six-foot by the age of 12, six-five fully grown, always trying to appear nicer and more orthodox than he felt he really was.
Having been propelled from anonymity to global recognition by his role in the first four series of Emily in Paris, Bravo, 36, suggested he might not be involved in the fifth.
Related words: anon
anonym
anonymal
anonymize
anonymosity
anonymous
anonymously
Derived words: cyberanonymity
k-anonymity
nonanonymity
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: анані́мнасць
roman: ananímnascʹ
lang: Czech
word: anonymita
lang: Danish
word: anonymitet
lang: Dutch
word: anonimiteit
lang: Esperanto
word: anonimeco
lang: Finnish
word: anonymiteetti
lang: Finnish
word: nimettömyys
lang: Finnish
word: anonyymiys
lang: Finnish
word: anonyymisyys
lang: French
word: anonymat
lang: Georgian
word: ანონიმურობა
roman: anonimuroba
lang: German
word: Anonymität
lang: Greek
word: ανωνυμία
roman: anonymía
lang: Hebrew
word: אלמוניות
roman: almoniyút
lang: Hungarian
word: névtelenség
lang: Icelandic
word: nafnleysi
lang: Icelandic
word: nafnleynd
lang: Irish
word: díth ainm
lang: Irish
word: gan ainmníocht
lang: Irish
word: neamhainmníocht
lang: Italian
word: anonimato
lang: Lithuanian
word: anonimiškumas
lang: Lithuanian
word: beveidiškumas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Anonymitéit
lang: Manx
word: neuennymid
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: anonymitet
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: anonymitet
lang: Polish
word: anonimowość
lang: Polish
word: anonimat
lang: Polish
word: bezimienność
lang: Portuguese
word: anonimato
lang: Romanian
word: anonimitate
lang: Romanian
word: anonimat
lang: Russian
word: анони́мность
roman: anonímnostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: анони́мно̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: anonímnōst
lang: Spanish
word: anonimato
lang: Swedish
word: anonymitet
lang: Ukrainian
word: аноні́мність
roman: anonímnistʹ