Mononymy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mononymy is a noun meaning Standardization of terms so that each entity has only one name.
Meaning
Standardization of terms so that each entity has only one name.
More Meanings
- The use of one-word names.
Example Sentences
As for mononymy, in the context of standardization, the notion that a concept ought to have only one designation seemed both reasonable and desirable.
What I am calling systematic gazetteers are primarily digital in form and address this lack of mononymy by providing a mix of disambiguating information in complex gazetteer records.
Bailey even states that "we should have gained much in simplicity of literature, in clarity and in popular usage, if we had had a mononymy or other arrangement instead of a taxonomic dionymy."
This new system, mononymy, would classify animals by means of a one-word taxon representing both genus and species in lieu of the binary system of two words, one for genus and the other for species.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mononym, monoseme, mononom, homonym, heteronymy, polyonymy.
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