pseudonymy

Etymology

From pseudo- + -onymy.

pseudonymy means the use of a pseudonym. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.

noun

The use of a pseudonym.“It is now well known that the Irish employed pseudonymy in their Latin writings of that period. Some famous examples are the Pseudo-Augustinian De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, the Pseudo-Isidorian De Ordine Creaturarum, and the Cosmographia of the so-called "Aethicus Ister", ascribed by H. Löwe to Vergil (Fergil), an eight-century Irish bishop of Salzburg.”