Word Meanings - IMPUDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes

Additional info about word: IMPUDENCE

The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny. Locke. Where pride and impudence Usurp the chair of wit. B. Jonson. Syn. -- Shamelessness; audacity; insolence; effrontery; sauciness; impertinence; pertness; rudeness. -- Impudence, Effrontery, Sauciness. Impudence refers more especially to the feelings as manifested in action. Effrontery applies to some gross and public exhibition of shamelessness. Sauciness refers to a sudden pert outbreak of impudence, especially from an inferior. Impudence is an unblushing kind of impertinence, and may be manifested in words, tones, gestures, looks, etc. Effrontery rises still higher, and shows a total or shameless disregard of duty or decorum under the circumstances of the case. Sauciness discovers itself toward particular individuals, in certain relations; as in the case of servants who are saucy to their masters, or children who are saucy to their teachers. See Impertinent, and Insolent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPUDENCE)

• Assumption
• Arrogance
• boldness
• impudence
• self-confidence
• selfreliance
• effrontery
• presumption
• conviction
• certainty
• self-assertion
• Effrontery
• Barefacedness
• brass
• Insolence
• assumption

Related words: (words related to IMPUDENCE)

• BAREFACEDNESS
  The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• BRASS-VISAGED
  Impudent; bold.
• BRASS
  A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• SELF-ASSERTION
  The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
• SELF-CONFIDENCE
  The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
• BRASSICACEOUS
  Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
• BRASSY
  1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.
• BRASSINESS
  The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.
• PRESUMPTION
  1. The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. 2. Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as,
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• BRASSIERE
  A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.
• BRASSICA
  A genus of plants embracing several species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage , broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip ; the common turnip ; the rape of coleseed , etc.
• BRASSE
  A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
• BRASSETS
  See BRASSART
• BOLDNESS
  The state or quality of being bold. Syn. -- Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.
• BRASSAGE
  A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
• ASSUMPTION
  The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) (more info) 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The
• IMPUDENCE
  The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes
• ARROGANCE
  The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• SELF-CONVICTION
  The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.
• VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
  Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)