https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/ano-nym-ity-bcfed8364521#.gxw870miu

“Consider the term anonymity. Ano means ‘negate/not/no/none’. Nym effectively means moniker or name. Ity indicates something ongoing. A process, not a state. A quality not only of ‘not being named’, but of thus, ‘being-in-process’.

We commonly associate this concept with the concealment of someone’s ‘personal identity’. Specifically: their name. Of course, what we mean is more complex. A combination of the personal and the public, the private and the social.”