What's the difference between eponym and pseudonym?

Eponym


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Eponyme

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ariel Żurawski, the owner of the eponymous trucking company and the victim’s cousin, who identified Urban in a photograph, said it was clear that Urban engaged in a struggle with his killer.
  • (2) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
  • (3) The abnormalities of phenotype and karyotype are now eponymously associated with his name.
  • (4) The above-mentioned syndrome complex is a distinct genetic syndrome, for which we propose the eponym "the Neu-Laxova syndrome."
  • (5) As shown in an eponymous fly-on-the-wall documentary released earlier this year, Weiner refused to bow out of the race despite the anguish of his staff and Abedin, who often looked on in silence as her husband attempted to extricate himself from the scandal.
  • (6) Most often, however, brain stem lesions also involve structures surrounding the ocular motor nuclei or fascicles, sometimes leading to characteristic eponymic syndromes.
  • (7) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
  • (8) The syndrome has been repeatedly criticized and several other eponyms have been suggested.
  • (9) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
  • (10) And in grace notes that run through it, partly in the huger themes, Morpheus, Dream, the eponymous Sandman has one title that means more to me than any other.
  • (11) The ages of the eponymous workers averaged 43 years at the time of their relevant publications.
  • (12) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (13) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
  • (14) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (15) Eponymous 25-year-old Charlotte Galitzine – she also owns restaurant Miel & Paprika opposite – provides absurdly cheap beer and cocktails; a pint of pilsner is €4 – a bargain in London, practically illegal in Paris.
  • (16) Elastica, The Menace (Deceptive, 2000) Hip, arty and bristling with pop hooks, Elastica's eponymous debut was one of Britpop's finest hours, but fluctuating line-ups, indecision and heroin dogged the follow-up.
  • (17) The eponym associated with this disorder, is the surname of the first patient examined in detail and reported by Biggs and colleagues in a paper describing the clinical and laboratory features of seven affected individuals.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cover of Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World by Shelina Janmohamed They are part of Generation M, and the eponymous book, subtitled Young Muslims Changing the World, is the first detailed portrait of this influential constituency of the world’s fastest growing religion.
  • (19) I’ve got nothing against proprietary software: as the eponymous heroine says of chemistry in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.” But when, as in the VW case, software has the potential or the power to have an adverse effect on human life or wellbeing, then we have to hold it to a different standard.
  • (20) We examined the fields and ages of 210 eponymous physicians and scientists whose biographies were published by Peter and Greta Beighton [1986] in The Man Behind the Syndrome.

Pseudonym


Definition:

  • (n.) A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard, angry, silent drinkers, in which case, you've got lucky), this involves combining the name of your first pet with your mother's maiden name to create the pseudonym you'd use if you were a porn star.
  • (2) Her celebrated experiment with a pseudonym as a demonstration of the hurdles facing unknown writers being just one example.
  • (3) The Long Walk is one of the famed "Bachman Books" , novels that King wrote before he was published in his own name, and that were only published (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in the wake of the success of Salem's Lot .
  • (4) Pseudonyms are used instead of the participants' names.
  • (5) When he discovered his phone had been tapped, Sarkozy allegedly obtained another phone under the pseudonym Paul Bismuth, to talk to his lawyer.
  • (6) In reality, the only harm that could ever come the way of these pseudonymous CIA agents would be in the form of more lawsuits from victims, given that the Justice Department gave up trying to prosecute any of them, and the White House gave up on even a modicum of accountability a while ago.
  • (7) According to Croatia's Zagreb newspaper Jutarnji List, Mladic had been living under the pseudonym Milorad Komadic.
  • (8) Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, last month suggested nominating Nakamoto for the 2016 Nobel prize in economics in recognition of his innovation, but Nakamoto’s pseudonymous identity meant he was ineligible.
  • (9) Mohammad Moslawi is the pseudonym of an Iraqi journalist working in Mosul
  • (10) Shortly afterwards, under a pseudonym, the informant admitted 20 serious offences and asked for 31 more to be taken into consideration.
  • (11) When asked what his plans are, he smiles and says: “I am getting married in April.” • Dani Patteran is a pseudonym
  • (12) Theresa May should be able to exercise sensible border control and stop him holding these seminars in our country.” The Change.org petition, drawn up by a city worker using the pseudonym Caroline Charles to protect herself from abuse, says Blanc and his association Real Social Dynamics (RSD) promote “sexist, racist and criminal approaches to women”.
  • (13) Now he lives in a safe house run by a Honduran charity, and asked only to be identified with a pseudonym.
  • (14) Next month, the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, often known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, will make his political comeback by fronting the relaunch of the UK arm of Pegida, the German anti-Islam organisation whose provocative rhetoric has prompted attacks on refugees .
  • (15) Elizabeth Sigmund was a friend of Sylvia Plath's and, along with her husband David, a dedicatee of The Bell Jar when Plath first published it under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas.
  • (16) One of which he is particularly proud is from Becky Hope, the pseudonym of a social worker whose memoir All in a Day's Work chronicles her years in child protection.
  • (17) Faith films may not be critically credible, yet, but some of the same people work on them, pseudonymously, as do on hipper indie movies.
  • (18) Three polyphosphorylated dinucleosides given the pseudonyms of HS3, HS2, and HS1 that were erroneously described as diguanosine polyphosphates (LéJohn, H. B., Cameron, L. E., McNaughton, D. R. & Klassen, G. R. (1975) Biochem, Biophys, Res, Commun.
  • (19) The biggest fight seems to be over the CIA’s efforts to black out the pseudonyms of CIA agents used in the report.
  • (20) By this time, he had begun to publish, at first pseudonymously, articles and reviews which, among other things, did much to draw attention to the burgeoning Soviet school of English 17th-century studies.