different between impertinence vs bumptiousness

English

Etymology

French impertinence

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m.?p??.t?.n?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m.?p?.t?.n?ns/

Noun

impertinence (countable and uncountable, plural impertinences)

1. (uncountable) Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
2. (countable) An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
3. (uncountable) The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
4. (countable, uncountable) Insolence; impudence.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p??.ti.n??s/

Noun

impertinence f (plural impertinences)

1. impertinence

Further reading

• “impertinence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

bumptious +? -ness

Noun

bumptiousness (usually uncountable, plural bumptiousnesses)

1. The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 13,

     Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.

Translations

References

• bumptiousness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.