different between shamelessness vs presumption

English

Etymology

From shameless +? -ness.

Noun

shamelessness (countable and uncountable, plural shamelessnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
   • 1853, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, ch. 7:

     [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.

   • 1914, Joseph Conrad, The Arrow of Gold, ch. 1:

     "For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."

   • 1919, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dangerous Days, ch. 50:

     She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.

2. (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
   • 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator, Volume 45, p. 624:

     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.

   • 1963, James Joyce and David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (2002 edition), ?ISBN, p. 109:

     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. . . .

   • 2006, Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia, ?ISBN, p. 104:

     He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.

Synonyms

• (state or characteristic of being shameless): immodesty, unself-consciousness

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French presumption, from Old French presumption, from Late Latin praesumpti?nem, accusative singular of Latin praesumpti?.

Noun

presumption (countable and uncountable, plural presumptions)

1. the act of presuming, or something presumed
2. the belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true
3. the condition upon which something is presumed
4. (dated) arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect
5. (law) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.
   • Bandini Petroleum Co. v. Superior Court, 284 U.S. 8, 18–19 (1931)

     The state, in the exercise of its general power to prescribe rules of evidence, may provide that proof of a particular fact, or of several facts taken collectively, shall be prima facie evidence of another fact when there is some rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed. The legislative presumption is invalid when it is entirely arbitrary, or creates an invidious discrimination, or operates to deprive a party of a reasonable opportunity to present the pertinent facts in his defense.

Synonyms

• overhope

Translations

Middle French

Noun

presumption f (plural presumptions)

1. assumption

Descendants

• French: présomption

References

• presomption on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Etymology

First known attestation circa 1180 in Anglo-Norman as presumpsion. Borrowed from Latin praesumpti?.

Noun

presumption f (oblique plural presumptions, nominative singular presumption, nominative plural presumptions)

1. (often law) presumption (something which is presumed)

Descendants

• ? English: presumption
• French: présomption

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (presumpcion, supplement)