notoriety

EnglishEdit

From Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin notorietas, from nōtōrius, from nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”).

notoriety (countable and uncountable, plural notorieties)

An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
- 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:
  [H]e who portrays examples of disinterestedness and intrepidity, confers on virtue the notoriety and homage that are due to it, and rouses in the spectators, the spirit of salutary emulation.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

condition of being infamous