notoriety

English

Etymology

Derived from Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin nōtōrietās, from nōtōrius, from nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊ.təˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊ.tɚ.aɪ.ə.ti/
• Rhymes: -aɪɪti

Noun

notoriety (countable and uncountable, plural notorieties)

1. An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
   • 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:

     [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.

   • 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:

     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.

Synonyms

• ill fame
• infamy

Translations

condition of being infamous or notorious

• Bulgarian: лоша слава (loša slava)
• Catalan: notorietat (ca) f
• Czech: nechvalná proslulost f
• Dutch: beruchtheid (nl) f, notoriëteit (nl) f, notoriteit (nl) f
• Estonian: kurikuulsus
• Finnish: pahamaineisuus (fi)
• French: infamie (fr) f, infâmie (fr) f (nonstandard spelling), infâmeté (fr) f (dated)
• German: Notorietät (de) f, schlechter Ruf m, traurige Berühmtheit f, schlechter Leumund m, übler Leumund m, übler Ruf m, Berüchtigtsein n (rare)
• Maori: mōiriiritanga
• Russian: дурная слава f inan (durnaja slava)
• Sanskrit: अकीर्ति (sa) f (akīrti)
• Spanish: notoriedad (es) f, infamia (es) f, mala fama f