orthonymous

orthonymous

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, orthonym +‎ -ous.

Adjective

orthonymous (comparative more orthonymous, superlative most orthonymous)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or being an orthonym.
    Synonym: autonymous
    Antonym: pseudonymous
    I find his orthonymous works even more interesting than his pseudonymous works.
    • 2019, Rehan P. Visser, “Fernando Pessoa’s Art of Living: Ironic Multiples, Multiple Ironies”, in The Philosophical Forum, volume 50, number 4, →DOI, page 441:
      The story goes that orthonymous Pessoa became a poet after encountering Caeiro and hearing him recite from The Keeper of Sheep.
    • 2020, Benedikt Wolf, “Cruising, Travelling, Marching toward the Center: The Spatial Parameters of Male Homosexuality in Felix Rexhausen’s Novels of the 1960s”, in Monatshefte[1], volume 112, number 2, pages 266-267:
      Text fragments travel, cruise, or circulate among the three 1960s novels ignoring the boundaries between published and unpublished works, between pseudonymous and orthonymous authorship, and between genres.
    • 2021, Justin Tonra, Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore, Routledge, →ISBN, page 8:
      Ironically, as he appeared in the British marketplace with his first orthonymous publication, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (1806), the reprinting of its contents in the United States began to reflect the strategic manipulations and disavowals that enriched the authorial status of his first two books.