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Impertinence vs Shamelessness - What's the difference?

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Impertinence is a related term of shamelessness.


In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between impertinence and shamelessness

is that impertinence is (uncountable) the fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness while shamelessness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being shameless.

As nouns the difference between impertinence and shamelessness

is that impertinence is (uncountable) lack of pertinence; irrelevance while shamelessness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being shameless.

impertinence

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
  • (countable) An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
  • (uncountable) The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
  • insolence.
  • shamelessness

    English

    Noun

  • (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.
  • (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 9781893311268, 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 9781843862192, 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