Shamelessness vs Temerity - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
* 1853 , (Charles Kingsley), Hypatia , ch. 7:
* 1914 , (Joseph Conrad), The Arrow of Gold , ch. 1:
* 1919 , (Mary Roberts Rinehart), Dangerous Days , ch. 50:
(countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
* 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator , Volume 45,
* 1963 , (James Joyce) and David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (2002 edition), ISBN 9781893311268,
* 2006 , Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia , ISBN 9781843862192,
(not countable) Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
* 1569 , Thomas Pearson, trans., "The Second Paradox," in The booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero entituled Paradoxa Stoicorum , T. Marshe (London),
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 17,
* 1886 , , The Mayor of Casterbridge , ch. 21
* 1913 , , The Return of Tarzan , ch. 21,
(countable) An act or case of reckless boldness.
* 1910 , , "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine , vol. 48 (Sept),
(not countable) Effrontery; impudence.
* 1820 , , Precaution , ch. 30,
Shamelessness is a related term of temerity.
As nouns the difference between shamelessness and temerity
is that shamelessness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being shameless while temerity is (not countable) reckless boldness; foolish bravery.shamelessness
English
Noun
- [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.
- "For instance as to her shamelessness . She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
- She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
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- 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.
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- 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. . . .
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- He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.
Synonyms
* (state or characteristic of being shameless) immodesty, unself-consciousnesstemerity
English
Noun
- 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.
- One day when he knew old Lobbs was out, Nathaniel Pipkin had the temerity to kiss his hand to Maria Lobbs.
- Elizabeth trotted through the open door in the dusk, but becoming alarmed at her own temerity , she went quickly out again by another which stood open in the lofty wall of the back court.
- I am surprised that you, sir, a man of letters yourself, should have the temerity so to interrupt the progress of science.
- Draper, dear lad, had the illusion of an "intellectual sympathy" between them.... Draper's temerities would always be of that kind.
- He had very nearly been guilty of the temerity of arrogating to himself another title in the presence of those he most respected.
Synonyms
* (reckless boldness): audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness * (effrontery): brashness, cheek, gall, chutzpahReferences
* * * * * "temerity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * "
temerity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * *