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Shamelessness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being shameless. uncountable

    "[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."

  2. 2
    behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame wordnet
  3. 3
    An utterance or action which is shameless. countable, rare

    "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."

Etymology

From shameless + -ness.

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