notoriety en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /noʊ.tɚ.aɪ.ə.ti/ (US)
- /nəʊ.təˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Derived from Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin nōtōrietās, from nōtōrius, from nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”). By surface analysis, notorious + -ety.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
This seems to me to be a reasonable request, and I will try to explain to you what it is that has given me this false notoriety; so please give me your attention.
1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:[H]e who portrays examples of disinterestedness and intrepidity, confers on virtue the notoriety and homage that are due to it, and rouses in the spectators, the spirit of salutary emulation.
1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| notorieties | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
notoriousness · infamy · ill fame
Translations (28)
mk ноторност (condition of being infamous or notorious) · es infamia (condition of being infamous or notorious) · bg лоша слава (condition of being infamous or notorious) · cs nechvalná proslulost (condition of being infamous or notorious) · ca notorietat (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de traurige Berühmtheit (condition of being infamous or notorious) · es notoriedad (condition of being infamous or notorious) · et kurikuulsus (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de übler Ruf (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de Berüchtigtsein (condition of being infamous or notorious) · sa अकीर्ति (condition of being infamous or notorious) · mi mōiriiritanga (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de übler Leumund (condition of being infamous or notorious) · fr infâmeté (condition of being infamous or notorious) · mk озлогласеност (condition of being infamous or notorious) · mk злогласност (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de schlechter Leumund (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de Notorietät (condition of being infamous or notorious) · nl notoriteit (condition of being infamous or notorious) · de schlechter Ruf (condition of being infamous or notorious) · es mala fama (condition of being infamous or notorious) · nl beruchtheid (condition of being infamous or notorious) · fr infamie (condition of being infamous or notorious) · nl notoriëteit (condition of being infamous or notorious) · fr infâmie (condition of being infamous or notorious) · fi pahamaineisuus (condition of being infamous or notorious) · cmn 惡名 /恶名 (condition of being infamous or notorious) · ru дурна́я сла́ва (condition of being infamous or notorious)