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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality or condition of being notorious; ill fame.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The state or character of being notorious; the character of being publicly or generally, and especially unfavorably, known; notoriousness: as, the notoriety of a crime.
  • One who is notorious or well-known.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The condition of being infamous or notorious.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality

Etymologies

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From notorious, from Medieval Latin nōtōrius, from Latin nōtus ("known"), perfect passive participle of nōscō ("get to know").

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