different between pseudonym vs penname

English

Etymology

Back-formation from pseudonymous, from French pseudonyme (“pseudonymous”, adjective), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pseud?numos), from ?????? (pseud?s, “false”) and ????? (ónuma), a dialectal form of ????? (ónoma, “name”). Synchronically analyzable as pseudo- +? -onym.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?.d??.n?m/, /?su.d?.n?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sudo?n?m/

Noun

pseudonym (plural pseudonyms)

1. A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.

   The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

   • c. 1911, H. G. Wells, The Obliterated Man

     I doubt, indeed, whether I should not abandon the struggle altogether—leave this sad world of ordinary life for which I am so ill fitted, abandon the name of Cummins for some professional pseudonym, complete my self-effacement, and—a thing of tricks and tatters, of posing and pretence—go upon the stage.

   • 1928, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

     The best example of its literary use so far are the German novel The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink, and the drama The Dybbuk, by the jewish writer using the pseudonym "Ansky".

Antonyms

• alethonym (“true name, from Ancient Greek ?????? (al?th?s, “true”) and ????? (ónuma)”) (cf. the cognates - English: alethonym (noun), alethonymous (adjective); German: Alethonym (noun) [[1]], alethonym (adjective or adverb), [2]; French: aléthonyme (noun or adjective) [3], [4], aléthonymes (noun or adjective), [5])

Hyponyms

• (acting contexts): stage name
• (literary contexts): pen name, pen-name, nom de plume
• (military contexts): nom de guerre
• (another person's actual name adopted as a pseudonym): allonym

Coordinate terms

• alias, handle, moniker, nickname

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• codename, nom de code
• euphemism

Czech

Noun

pseudonym m

1. pseudonym

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœvdony?m/, [sœwd?o?ny??m]

Noun

pseudonym n (singular definite pseudonymet, plural indefinite pseudonymer)

1. pseudonym

Inflection

Adjective

pseudonym

1. pseudonymous

Inflection

Further reading

• pseudonym on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ps???do?ny?m]

Adjective

pseudonym (not comparable)

1. pseudonymous

Declension

Further reading

• “pseudonym” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• psevdonym

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (pseud?numos)

Noun

pseudonym n (definite singular pseudonymet, indefinite plural pseudonym or pseudonymer, definite plural pseudonyma or pseudonymene)

1. pseudonym

References

• “pseudonym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• psevdonym

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (pseud?numos)

Noun

pseudonym n (definite singular pseudonymet, indefinite plural pseudonym, definite plural pseudonyma)

1. pseudonym

References

• “pseudonym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Noun

penname (plural pennames)

1. Alternative form of pen name
   • 2013, Helene Foley, Reflections of Women in Antiquity (page 311)

     Nevertheless Neopythagorean treatises are extant that were written in Alexandria at the end of the first century B.C. Some of these treatises were written by women adopting as pennames the names of earlier female disciples and relatives of of Pythagoras.