"anonymity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ænəˈnɪmɪti/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-anonymity.ogg Forms: anonymities [plural]
Etymology: From anonym (“anonymous person”) + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|anonym|ity|t1=anonymous person}} anonym (“anonymous person”) + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} anonymity (countable and uncountable, plural anonymities)
  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being anonymous. [from 19th c.] Tags: uncountable Synonyms: anonymousness Translations (the quality or state of being anonymous): анані́мнасць (ananímnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), anonymita [feminine] (Czech), anonymitet [common-gender] (Danish), anonimiteit [feminine] (Dutch), anonimeco (Esperanto), anonymiteetti (Finnish), nimettömyys (Finnish), anonyymiys (Finnish), anonyymisyys (Finnish), anonymat (French), Anonymität [feminine] (German), ανωνυμία (anonymía) [feminine] (Greek), אלמוניות (almoniyút) [feminine] (Hebrew), névtelenség (Hungarian), nafnleysi [neuter] (Icelandic), nafnleynd [feminine] (Icelandic), díth ainm [feminine] (Irish), gan ainmníocht (Irish), neamhainmníocht [feminine] (Irish), anonimato [masculine] (Italian), anonimiškumas [masculine] (Lithuanian), beveidiškumas [masculine] (Lithuanian), Anonymitéit [feminine] (Luxembourgish), neuennymid [masculine] (Manx), anonymitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), anonymitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), anonimowość [feminine] (Polish), anonimat [masculine] (Polish), bezimienność [feminine] (Polish), anonimato [masculine] (Portuguese), anonimitate [feminine] (Romanian), анони́мность (anonímnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), анони́мно̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), anonímnōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), anonimato [masculine] (Spanish), anonymitet [common-gender] (Swedish), аноні́мність (anonímnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (countable) That which is anonymous. Tags: countable Translations (that which is anonymous): Anonyme (German), anónimo [masculine] (Portuguese), anonim [masculine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-anonymity-en-noun-PUkvRWKx Disambiguation of 'that which is anonymous': 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cyberanonymity, k-anonymity, nonanonymity Related terms: anon, anonym, anonymal, anonymize, anonymosity, anonymous, anonymously

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1976, Joni Mitchell, Song for Sharon:",
          "text": "Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink\nCircling in singles and in pairs\nIn this vigorous anonymity",
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          "ref": "2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1085:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "\"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'?'\n \"I am quite enjoying the anonymity of London so far...\"\n Given the high-profile task ahead of him, that isn't going to last for long.",
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          "ref": "2006, Jatindra Mohan Mohanty, History of Oriya Literature, page 516:",
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    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
    "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
    "Terms with Manx translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
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    {
      "word": "cyberanonymity"
    },
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      "word": "k-anonymity"
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      "word": "nonanonymity"
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      "word": "anon"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonym"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymal"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymize"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymosity"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymous"
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    {
      "word": "anonymously"
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        {
          "word": "onymity"
        }
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1976, Joni Mitchell, Song for Sharon:",
          "text": "Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink\nCircling in singles and in pairs\nIn this vigorous anonymity",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1085:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55:",
          "text": "\"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'?'\n \"I am quite enjoying the anonymity of London so far...\"\n Given the high-profile task ahead of him, that isn't going to last for long.",
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        "The quality or state of being anonymous."
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        [
          "anonymous",
          "anonymous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality or state of being anonymous. [from 19th c.]"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "anonymousness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jatindra Mohan Mohanty, History of Oriya Literature, page 516:",
          "text": "In one sense the protagonist is the poet himself, but in another sense he is an anonymity.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which is anonymous."
      ],
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        "(countable) That which is anonymous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ænəˈnɪmɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "ananímnascʹ",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анані́мнасць"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anonymita"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "anonymitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimiteit"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "anonimeco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "anonymiteetti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "nimettömyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "anonyymiys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "anonyymisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "anonymat"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Anonymität"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anonymía",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ανωνυμία"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "almoniyút",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אלמוניות"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "névtelenség"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "nafnleysi"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafnleynd"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "díth ainm"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "word": "gan ainmníocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neamhainmníocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimato"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimiškumas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "beveidiškumas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Anonymitéit"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "neuennymid"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonymitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonymitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimowość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bezimienność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "anonímnostʹ",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анони́мность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анони́мно̄ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anonímnōst"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonimato"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "anonymitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "anonímnistʹ",
      "sense": "the quality or state of being anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "аноні́мність"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that which is anonymous",
      "word": "Anonyme"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "that which is anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anónimo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "that which is anonymous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anonim"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "anonymity"
  ],
  "word": "anonymity"
}

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