Pseudonym vs Homonym - What's the difference?
pseudonym | homonym |
A fictitious name, often used by writers and movie stars.
* c1911 —
* 1928 —
(semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a (homophone) (same sound) or a (homograph) (same spelling).
(taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
As nouns the difference between pseudonym and homonym
is that pseudonym is while homonym is homonym (word with the same sound or spelling but different meaning).pseudonym
English
(wikipedia pseudonym)Noun
(en noun)- The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
- I doubt, indeed, whether I should not abandon the struggle altogether-- leave this sad world of ordinary life for which I am so ill fitted, abandon the name of Cummins for some professional pseudonym , complete my self-effacement, and--a thing of tricks and tatters, of posing and pretence--go upon the stage.
- The best example of its literary use so far are the German novel The Golem'', by Gustav Meyrink, and the drama ''The Dybbuk , by the jewish writer using the pseudonym "Ansky".