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  • adjective

    negative association with a name related to dislike or negative interactions with a person of the same name

    formerly, nymogy

    I didn't give much thought to creating this word. Don't we all have negative associations with certain names because of certain people we dislike? A particular set of sounds (i.e., a name) is forever negatively tainted because of our associations with a person of that name. I want to find a word to describe a sort of counterpart, but not an opposite: there are several names in literature that I love, but do not like the associated characters (Tamora and Regan, in particular).

    November 1, 2009