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Renown vs Infamy - What's the difference?

renown | infamy |

As nouns the difference between renown and infamy

is that renown is fame; celebrity; wide recognition while infamy is the state of being infamous.

renown

English

Noun

(-)
  • Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
  • * Dryden
    • Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
    • There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
  • Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .

    See also

    * renowned

    infamy

    English

    Noun

    (infamies)
  • The state of being infamous.
  • A reputation as being evil.
    • "Infamy', '''infamy - they've all got it in for me!" - Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in ''Carry On Cleo
    "A date which will live in infamy " - Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour