'onomastic' in The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance | Bookmarker

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(adjective) of, relating to, or consisting of a name or names

a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships

on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom

—p.116 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady

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