different between anonymity vs anonymise

English

Etymology

anonym +? -ity, the root from French anonyme and ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (an?numos).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æn??n?m?ti/

Noun

anonymity (countable and uncountable, plural anonymities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness. [from 19th c.]
   • 1976, Joni Mitchell, "Song for Sharon":

     Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink

     Circling in singles and in pairs

     In this vigorous anonymity
2. (countable) That which is anonymous.

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References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Anonymity”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 347, column 3.
• anonymity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Verb

anonymise (third-person singular simple present anonymises, present participle anonymising, simple past and past participle anonymised) (non-Oxford British spelling)

1. Alternative form of anonymize

French

Verb

anonymise

1. first-person singular present indicative of anonymiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of anonymiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of anonymiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of anonymiser
5. second-person singular imperative of anonymiser

Anagrams

• moyennais