[f. as prec. + -ITY; cf. unanim-ity, etc.] The state of being anonymous. (Used of an author or his writings.)
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 11. With a strange system of anonymity … has Voltaire surrounded himself.
1880. Grosart, Poems R. James, Introd. p. lxxvii. The anonymity of the poem on Felton and the semi-anonymity of the poem on Shakespeare are to be accounted for by the circumstances under which they were composed.
1882. Times, 14 Feb., 10/2. Academical dignitaries, writing either in their own names or under a disguise of transparent anonymity.
