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Notoriety

//noʊ.tɚ.aɪ.ə.ti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An infamous or notorious condition or reputation. countable, uncountable

    "[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."

  2. 2
    the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality wordnet

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.

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