"shamelessness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shamelessnesses [plural]
Etymology: From shameless + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|shameless|ness}} shameless + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} shamelessness (countable and uncountable, plural shamelessnesses)
  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless. Tags: uncountable Synonyms (state or characteristic of being shameless): immodesty, unself-consciousness Translations (The state or characteristic of being without shame): ἀναιδεία (anaideía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), անամոթություն (anamotʻutʻyun) (Armenian), arsızlıq (Azerbaijani), utanmazlıq (Azerbaijani), utanmamazlıq (Azerbaijani), abırsızlıq (Azerbaijani), həyasızlıq (Azerbaijani), desvergonyiment [masculine] (Catalan), schaamteloosheid [feminine] (Dutch), onbeschaamdheid [feminine] (Dutch), senhonteco (Esperanto), häpeämättömyys (Finnish), sans-gêne [masculine] (French), effronterie [feminine] (French), impudicité [feminine] (French), უსირცხვილობა (usircxviloba) (Georgian), Schamlosigkeit [feminine] (German), αδιαντροπιά (adiantropiá) [feminine] (Greek), szégyentelenség (Hungarian), neamhnáire [feminine] (Irish), mínáire [feminine] (Irish), ainfhéile [feminine, literary] (Irish), spudoratezza [feminine] (Italian), inverecondia [feminine] (Italian), 厚顔無恥 (kōganmuchi) (alt: こうがんむち) (Japanese), 파렴치 (paryeomchi) (Korean), 몰염치 (moryeomchi) (Korean), impudentia [feminine] (Latin), skamløshet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), عارسزلق (ârsızlık) (Ottoman Turkish), bezwstyd [masculine] (Polish), bezwstydność [feminine] (Polish), impudor [masculine] (Portuguese), despudor [masculine] (Portuguese), бессты́дство (besstýdstvo) [masculine] (Russian), sinvergonzonería [feminine] (Spanish), desvergüenza [feminine] (Spanish), desfachatez (Spanish), yüzsüzlük (Turkish)
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  2. (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless. Tags: countable, rare
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "shamelessness (countable and uncountable, plural shamelessnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 7, in Hypatia:",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in The Arrow of Gold:",
          "text": "\"For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . .\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 50, in Dangerous Days:",
          "text": "She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or characteristic of being shameless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shameless",
          "shameless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872 May 18, “The Women's Rights' Convention in New York”, in The Spectator, volume 45, page 624:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, James Joyce, David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake, published 2002, →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "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. . . .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia, →ISBN, page 104:",
          "text": "He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An utterance or action which is shameless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "utterance",
          "utterance"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "state or characteristic of being shameless",
      "word": "immodesty"
    },
    {
      "sense": "state or characteristic of being shameless",
      "word": "unself-consciousness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "anamotʻutʻyun",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "անամոթություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "arsızlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "utanmazlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "utanmamazlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "abırsızlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "həyasızlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desvergonyiment"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schaamteloosheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "onbeschaamdheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "senhonteco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "häpeämättömyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sans-gêne"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "effronterie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "impudicité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "usircxviloba",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "უსირცხვილობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schamlosigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "adiantropiá",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αδιαντροπιά"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "anaideía",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ἀναιδεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "szégyentelenség"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neamhnáire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mínáire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ainfhéile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spudoratezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inverecondia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こうがんむち",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōganmuchi",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "厚顔無恥"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "paryeomchi",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "파렴치"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "moryeomchi",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "몰염치"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "impudentia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skamløshet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "ârsızlık",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "عارسزلق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bezwstyd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bezwstydność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "impudor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "despudor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besstýdstvo",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бессты́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sinvergonzonería"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desvergüenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "desfachatez"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "The state or characteristic of being without shame",
      "word": "yüzsüzlük"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shamelessness"
}

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