aptonymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The aptonym has become nowadays the study object of the science called aptonymy."
Etymology
From aptonym + -y.