Pseudonym vs Nickname - What's the difference?
pseudonym | nickname |
A fictitious name, often used by writers and movie stars.
* c1911 —
* 1928 —
A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.
A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.
To give a nickname to (a person or thing).
Nickname is a synonym of pseudonym.
As nouns the difference between pseudonym and nickname
is that pseudonym is a fictitious name, often used by writers and movie stars while nickname is a familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.As a verb nickname is
to give a nickname to (a person or thing).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".