impudence

English

Etymology

From Middle French impudence, from Latin impudentia.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpjədəns/, /ˈɪmpjudəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

impudence (countable and uncountable, plural impudences)

1. The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.
2. Impudent language, conduct or behavior.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.

Synonyms

• cheek
• sauciness
• See also Thesaurus:impudence

Related terms

• impudent

Translations

quality of being impudent

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: наха́лство (bg) n (nahálstvo), дъ́рзост (bg) f (dǎ́rzost)
• Catalan: impudència f
• Czech: drzost (cs) f, nestydatost (cs) f, opovážlivost (cs) f
• Dutch: onbeschoftheid (nl) f, onbeschaamdheid (nl) f, brutaliteit (nl) f
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: röyhkeys (fi), häpeämättömyys (fi), julkeus (fi)
• French: impudence (fr) f
• Galician: impudencia f
• German: Flegelei f, Frechheit (de) f, Unverschämtheit (de) f, Vermessenheit f, Unverfrorenheit (de) f
• Greek: θράσος (el) n (thrásos)
• Hebrew: עזות-מצח f (azút-métzakh)
• Interlingua: impudentia
• Irish: brusaireacht f, gearr-aighneas m, dailtíneacht f
• Italian: impudenza (it) f, sfrontatezza (it) f
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: impudentia f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frekkhet m or f, uforskammethet (no) m or f

• Ottoman Turkish: پیشانی (pişanî)
• Persian: بی‌ادبی (fa) (bi-adabi)
• Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: arogancja (pl) f, bezczelność (pl) f, bezwstydność (pl) f, hucpiarstwo n, impertynenckość f, zuchwalstwo (pl) n, zuchwałość (pl) f
• Portuguese: impudência (pt) f
• Romanian: obrăznicie (ro) f, impudoare (ro) f, impudență f
• Russian: на́глость (ru) f (náglostʹ), де́рзость (ru) f (dérzostʹ), наха́льство (ru) n (naxálʹstvo), нахрапистость (ru) n (naxrapistostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgimilearachd f
• Spanish: impudencia (es) f, descaro (es) m, desenvoltura
• Turkish: arsızlık (tr)
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

impudent language, conduct or behavior

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: безо́чие (bg) n (bezóčie)
• Czech: drzost (cs) f
• Dutch: onbeschaamdheid (nl) f
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: röyhkeys (fi), häpeämättömyys (fi), julkeus (fi)
• French: impudence (fr) f (often in the plural)
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Flegelei f, Frechheit (de) f, Unverschämtheit (de) f, Vermessenheit f, unverschämtes Benehmen n, Unverfrorenheit (de) f
• Greek: θράσος (el) n (thrásos)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: brusaireacht f, gearr-aighneas m
• Italian: impudenza (it) f, sfrontatezza (it) f
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frekkhet m or f, uforskammethet (no) m or f

• Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: arogancja (pl) f, bezczelność (pl) f, bezwstydność (pl) f, hucpiarstwo n, impertynenckość f, zuchwalstwo (pl) n, zuchwałość (pl) f
• Portuguese: impudência (pt) f
• Romanian: obrăznicie (ro) f
• Russian: на́глость (ru) f (náglostʹ), де́рзость (ru) f (dérzostʹ), наха́льство (ru) n (naxálʹstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgimilearachd f
• Spanish: impudicia (es) f, descaro (es) m, insolencia (es) f, desvergüenza (es) f
• Turkish: arsızlık (tr) sg
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 厚臉皮／厚脸皮 (zh) (hòu liǎnpí), ^{(please verify)} 厚顏／厚颜 (zh) (hòuyán), ^{(please verify)} 無恥／无耻 (zh) (wúchǐ)

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} lugupidamatus, ^{(please verify)} ninakus, ^{(please verify)} häbematus, ^{(please verify)} jultumus

French

Etymology

From Latin impudentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.py.dɑ̃s/
• Homophone: impudences

Noun

impudence f (plural impudences)

1. impudence

Related terms

• impudent

Further reading

• “impudence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.