A namesake is a person, geographic location, or other entity bearing the name of another.
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.
Aptronym is sometimes used in academic writing to refer to a name that fits some aspect of a character, as in Mr. Talkative and Mr. Worldly Wiseman in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.
named after. DEFINITIONS1. (name someone after someone/something) to give someone or something the same name as someone or something else, especially the same first name as a member of your family. Albert was named after his grandfather.
A namesake is a person, geographic location, or other entity bearing the name of another.
Eponymous, being the adjective derived from the word eponym, carries the same meaning—it describes someone after whom something was named.
Most everyone sometimes mixes up the names of family and friends. Their findings were published in the journal Memory & Cognition. "It's a normal cognitive glitch," Deffler says. It's not related to a bad memory or to aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names.
Using someone's name can be an effective way of breaking into conversation. It can also be effective when a person seems distracted or has disappeared off into their own head. Formal and informal. Using a formal name is often associated with obedience and can be seen as a sign of respect.
In psychology, this masking of our true feelings of insecurity is known as displaced aggression; when we cannot express our own vulnerable emotions, such as fear or inadequacy, we instead direct our aggression toward an easier target. Name-calling and criticism are two common forms of displaced aggression.
a person's name, especially a nickname or alias.
Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym. Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name.
If your parents named you after your Great Uncle Abner, then you are his namesake. The two of you share a very nice name. Use the noun namesake to describe the recipient of a handed-down name, like Bob Jr., or Ricky Smith III.
A matronymic is a personal name or a parental name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames.
First, a little backstory: The tradition of giving a child the name of his parent—technically known as a “patronym”—goes back several centuries, when a child (usually a first son) was named after a parent (usually a dad) as a symbol of familial fealty.
Giving children patronymics—names derived from those of their fathers—is standard practice in some cultures.
Hearing your own name causes your brain to react as if you're engaging in the behaviors and thought patterns that serve as some of your core identity and personality markers. In fact, this reaction is so powerful that similar patterns were observed in patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).
It is called "self-reference".
Recent studies found that our names have the potential to influence our behavior, physical appearance, career path and life choices, popularity, and how others perceive us. Based on research, it takes 1/10th of a second to assess someone's face and physicality to draw the first impression.
Because names don't have any other cues attached to them, they often get stored in the brain's short-term memory (that mostly registers things we hear), to be easily replaced by the next piece of information we encounter, according to neuroscientist Dean Burnett.
Psychologists have discovered why it happens. Inadvertently calling someone the wrong name, whether by a parent, close friend or even a partner, happens because of love, according to Quartz.
The simplest explanation: you're just not that interested, Ranganath says. “People are better at remembering things that they're motivated to learn. Sometimes you are motivated to learn people's names, and other times it's more of a passing thing, and you don't at the time think it's important.”
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However, some eponyms are in such common usage that their connection to the person they are named for has been almost forgotten. As a result, they are no longer capitalised. Thus, it is grammatically correct when using a common eponym to write hoover, vaseline and jeep.
In literature, some of the best examples are books named after title characters. These include Ethan Frome, Harry Potter, Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist, and more.