Charactonym
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A charactonym is a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character.
Examples:
- Mara Jade from some of the Star Wars novels: "Mara" means "bitter" in Hebrew; when someone is jaded they are bitter; and bitter is a somewhat simplified description of her character in the first books she appears in.
- Thomas Gradgrind, a character in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times, subjects his students to a grinding discipline of "facts, facts, facts."
- Squire Allworthy, in Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones, is an exemplar of virtue.