nonname

English

Alternative forms

• non-name

Etymology

From non- +‎ name.

Noun

nonname (plural nonnames)

1. Something, such as a word, that is not a name.
   • 2012, Jonathan Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan, page 226:

     There are at least two separate categories of unnameables: first, there are big unnameables, with various deictic nonnames such as I am that I am, Yahweh, the Other, the Real, an outside always to come, and so on; […]