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What is the noun for eponyms?

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eponym
  1. The name of a real or fictitious person whose name has, or is thought to have, given rise to the name of a particular item.
  2. A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Guillain-Barre syndrome is an eponym for a heterogeneous group of immune-mediated peripheral neuropathies.”
      “It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.”
      “Leprosy was given the eponym Hansen's disease after Gerhard Henrick Armauer Hansen.”
eponymy
  1. (semantics) The semantic relation of eponyms; the quality of being eponymous.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This history would seem to provide a noteworthy lesson for those seeking immortality via eponymy!”
      “Instead we should look to Speusippus' analysis of tautonymy and heteronymy and bypass eponymy altogether.”
      “Ehyeh asher Ehyeh is not only a name, it is a sine qua non of functional eponymy.”
eponymist
  1. One whose name is used as an eponym; a person after whom something is named.
eponyme
  1. Archaic form of eponym.
eponymists
  1. plural of eponymist
eponymes
  1. plural of eponyme
eponymies
  1. plural of eponymy
eponyms
  1. plural of eponym
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The eponyms are the French Marquis de Sade and the Austrian Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.”
      “This in part is due to the confusion that arises by the numerous eponyms given to describe the same condition.”
      “Like so many other eponyms, the origin of the Windsor Knot is disputed, and the Duke of Windsor himself dismissed that he had invented it.”
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