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#NAMESHAVEQUALITIES: Fictional characters

whose name contain their qualities
ET Online Last Updated: Jul 13, 2022, 05:49 PM IST
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If you can remember characters – from books or films or even songs -- do leave their

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name here, along with a line about the character, and how name and the character’s
quality connect. Here’s 10 names we dug up to give you a push to add more in this

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#Names-Have-Qualities list:

Do names matter? Would a rose by any

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other name – say, ‘cactus’ or ‘sand’ –
make it smell as sweet? Would Gabbar
Singh – ‘gabbar’ meaning arrogant,

rate up
haughty in Hindi – be as menacing a
character if he was named Shyam
Singh?

A charactonym is the term for the

naming of fictional characters to suggest distinctive traits they possess even
to 7.75%
before you get to be acquainted with them. If you can remember characters –
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from books or films or even songs -- do leave their name here, along with a line
about the character, and how name and the character’s quality connect.
Here’s 10 names we dug up to give you a push to add more in this #Names-
Have-Qualities list:

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