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Etymology

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From password +‎ -like.

Adjective

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passwordlike (comparative more passwordlike, superlative most passwordlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a password.
    • 1998, Serge Leclaire, A child is being killed: on primary narcissism and the death drive:
      ...something like words, or better, passwordlike names, those of newborn children or dead relatives.
    • 2005, Steve Wohlberg, End Time Delusions:
      The biblical phrase, "the son of perdition," also has certain passwordlike qualities. In essence, those four words are like a special code.