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aptonymy

aptonymy

English

Noun

aptonymy (uncountable)

  1. The situation where a person's name is an aptonym.
    • 2009, Alex Horne, Birdwatchingwatching: One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds, ISBN 0753515768:
      Now, I don't know whether this is an example of nominative determinism – a phrase coined by the New Scientist to describe the phenomenon of one's name determining one's career – or aptonymy, the more coincidental occurrence of one's name being particularly fitting for one's personality, but I came across several such examples in the birding world.
  2. The study of aptonyms.
    • 2007, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai: Philologia - Issues 1-3, page 237:
      The aptonym has become nowadays the study object of the science called aptonymy.