notoriety

From Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin notorietas, from nōtōrius, from Latin nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊ.tə.ˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊ.tɚ.aɪ.ə.ti/

notoriety (plural notorieties)

1. The condition of being infamous or notorious.
   • 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:

     [H]e who portrays examples of disinterestedness and intrepidity, confers on virtue the notoriety and homage that are due to it, and rouses in the spectators, the spirit of salutary emulation.

   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity‎:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

• ill fame
• infamy