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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The quality or condition of being notorious; ill fame.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. One who is notorious or well-known.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The condition of being infamous or notorious

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

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

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