pseudandry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

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"It is a case of pseudandry when a woman adopts a man's name; for instance, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, afterward Dudevant, signed herself George Sand, […]"
"[…] and ends with Michael Strange, an example of pseudandry, or the use by a woman of a masculine pen name […]"
"A reprinting from the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung of a list of 279 examples of pseudandry (use of masculine name by a woman as a pseudonym) of chiefly German female writers."

From pseudo- (“false”) + -andry (“man”).

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