anonymity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality or state of being anonymous (nameless or unidentified).

   Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink Circling in singles and in pairs In this vigorous anonymity

2. 2
   noun

   That which is anonymous.

   In one sense the protagonist is the poet himself, but in another sense he is an anonymity.

3. 3
   noun

   The quality or state of being generally unknown, unrecognized, or uncelebrated.

   The profiteer who through a combine fleeces the public would scorn to wrong a friend or betray those of his own household. The problem then resolves itself into a question of the elimination of the impersonality, the anonymity of modern life that is made an excuse for moral irresponsibility.

4. 4
   noun

   the state of being anonymous

Etymology

From Latin anonymus or its etymon Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “anonymous”) + -ity. Compare French anonymité.