The Only Use
anonymity
in
Lord of the Flies
(Edited)
- 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) 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."