Defining Anonymity
The Oxford English Dictionary defines anonymity as being:
- nameless
- unacknowledged
- indistinguishable from others of its kind
- unrecognized
- lacking a sense of community or place
The appropriation of anonymity in modernism ranges between all of these definitions. Whether an individual is fully nameless or merely unseen by those around him, a feeling of anonymity is often still present within them. The modernist treatment of all different levels of anonymity often yields the same results.