alethonymous

English

Etymology

alethonym +‎ -ous

Adjective

alethonymous (not comparable)

1. (very rare) Of or pertaining to an alethonym (true name).

   Synonym: orthonymous

   Antonym: pseudonymous

   • 2013, Richard McCombs, The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard:

     Moreover, these affirmations of reason and knowledge tend to be hidden away in the less exciting, and therefore less read, portions of Kierkegaard's authorship, that is, either in the books to which he signed his own name—what I call alethonymous books—or in the two books by the pseudonymous author named Anti-Climacus.

Translations

of or pertaining to an alethonym (true name)

• French: aléthonyme
• German: alethonym