NOTORIETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does notoriety mean? 

• NOTORIETY (noun)
  The noun NOTORIETY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality

  Familiarity information: NOTORIETY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTORIETY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ill fame; notoriety

Hypernyms ("notoriety" is a kind of...):

infamy (evil fame or public reputation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "notoriety"):

reputation (notoriety for some particular characteristic)

 Context examples 

Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even Professors might be misled by the desire for notoriety.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile, other events popped up seeking to capitalize on the notoriety of the Storm Area 51 event.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

As my notoriety began to bring upon me an enormous quantity of letters from people of whom I had no knowledge—chiefly about nothing, and extremely difficult to answer—I agreed with Traddles to have my name painted up on his door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So long as he was in actual professional practice the records of his successes were of some practical value to him, but since he has definitely retired from London and betaken himself to study and bee-farming on the Sussex Downs, notoriety has become hateful to him, and he has peremptorily requested that his wishes in this matter should be strictly observed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)