The Only Use of
anonymity
in
Lord of the Flies
- He paused, defeated by the silence and the painted anonymity of the group guarding the entry.
p. 178.7anonymity = unknown identities
Definitions:
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(1)
(anonymity) a state where the identity of someone is unknown -- for example, the name of an author or the name of a donor
or (more rarely): a lack of individuality or interesting features -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, anonymity can also be used to indicate an impersonal environment where people generally don't know each other as in "He liked the anonymity of the big city."