different between shamelessness vs temerity
shamelessness
English
Etymology
From shameless +? -ness.
Noun
shamelessness (countable and uncountable, plural shamelessnesses)
- (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.
- 1853, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, ch. 7:
- (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
noseglownose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses aboutetherseverybody ever he met. . . .
- He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his
- 2006, Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia, ?ISBN, p. 104:
- He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.
- 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator, Volume 45, p. 624:
Synonyms
- (state or characteristic of being shameless): immodesty, unself-consciousness
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temerity
English
Etymology
temer(arious) +? -ity, from Middle English temerite, temeryte, from Old French temerité, from Latin temerit?s (“chance, accident, rashness”), from temer? (“by chance, casually, rashly”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??m???ti/, /t??m???ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /t??m???ti/
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
temerity (countable and uncountable, plural temerities)
- (uncountable) Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
- Synonyms: audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness
- 1569, Thomas Pearson, trans., "The Second Paradox," in The booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero entituled Paradoxa Stoicorum, T. Marshe (London),
- Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnify me.
- (countable) An act or case of reckless boldness.
- 1910, Edith Wharton, "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 48 (Sept),
- Draper, dear lad, had the illusion of an "intellectual sympathy" between them.... Draper's temerities would always be of that kind.
- 1910, Edith Wharton, "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 48 (Sept),
- (uncountable) Effrontery; impudence.
- Synonyms: brashness, cheek, gall, chutzpah
Related terms
- intemerate
- temerarious
- temerary
- temerous
Translations
Further reading
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “temerity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- temerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “temerity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "temerity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
- "temerity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “temerity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
- temerity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- temerity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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