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shamelessness en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skamō Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-Germanic *skamōlausaz Proto-West Germanic *skamulaus Old English sċamlēas Middle English schameles English shameless Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English shamelessness From shameless + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
   • "For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ." 1914, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in The Arrow of Gold:
   • [H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him. 1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 7, in Hypatia:
   • She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest. 1919, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 50, in Dangerous Days:
2. (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
   • He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about ethers everybody ever he met. . . . 1963, James Joyce, David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake, published 2002, →ISBN, page 109:
   • Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses, occasionally stories of deep pathos, but all intended as denunciations of the existing scheme of morals, all followed by the same remark that while marriage exists there can be no happiness for mankind. 1872 May 18, “The Women's Rights' Convention in New York”, in The Spectator, volume 45, page 624:
   • He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch. 2006, Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia, →ISBN, page 104:

Forms

Synonyms

immodesty (state or characteristic of being shameless) · unself-consciousness (state or characteristic of being shameless)

Translations (47)

ga neamhnáire (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · grc ἀναιδεία (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · de Schamlosigkeit (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · it spudoratezza (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · nl onbeschaamdheid (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ca desvergonyiment (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · la impudentia (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · pt impudor (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · fr effronterie (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · fr impudicité (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr utanmazlık (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr arsızlık (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · it inverecondia (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · es desfachatez (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ga mínáire (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · pt despudor (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · hi निर्लज्जता (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr sıkılmazlık (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr hayasızlık (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ug ئارسىزلىق (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · az utanmamazlıq (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ko 파렴치 (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · pl bezwstydność (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · hu szégyentelenség (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr yüzsüzlük (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr arlanmazlık (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · hy անամոթություն (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · fr sans-gêne (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · tr yırtıklık (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · es desvergüenza (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · es sinvergonzonería (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · eo senhonteco (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ga ainfhéile (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · el αδιαντροπιά (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · nb skamløshet (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · fi häpeämättömyys (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · az həyasızlıq (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · nl schaamteloosheid (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ko 몰염치 (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ota عارسزلق (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ka უსირცხვილობა (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · pl bezwstyd (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · az utanmazlıq (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · az abırsızlıq (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ru бессты́дство (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · az arsızlıq (The state or characteristic of being without shame) · ja 厚顔無恥 (The state or characteristic of being without shame)