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Visible vs Notorious - What's the difference?

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Visible is a related term of notorious.


As adjectives the difference between visible and notorious

is that visible is able to be seen while notorious is widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.

visible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be seen.
  • *
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  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close

    Synonyms

    * apparent

    Antonyms

    * invisible * hidden

    notorious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
  • * 1920 , "This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man — a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name — you have reflected the demi-monde]] rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up." — by [[w:F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • * 1999', ''"The Hempshocks' sheep were '''notoriously the finest for miles around: shaggy-coated and intelligent (for sheep), with curling horns and sharp hooves."'' — Neil Gaiman, ''Stardust , pg. 30 (2001 Perennial edition)
  • Synonyms

    * ill-famed * infamous