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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

Etymologies

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

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