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Meaning of "impoliteness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPOLITENESS

impoliteness  [ˌɪmpəˈlaɪtnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPOLITENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Impoliteness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IMPOLITENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rudeness

Rudeness is a display of disrespect by not complying with the social norms or etiquette of a group or culture. These laws have been established as the essential boundaries of normally accepted behavior. To be unable or unwilling to align one's behavior with these laws known to the general population of what is socially acceptable is to be rude. Rudeness "constituted by deviation from whatever counts as politic in a given social context, is inherently confrontational and disruptive to social equilibrium". Rudeness, particularly with respect to speech, is necessarily confrontational at its core. Forms of rudeness: inconsiderate, insensitive, deliberately offensive, impolite, a faux pas, obscenity, profanity, violating taboos such as deviancy. In some cases, an act of rudeness can go so far as to be a crime.

Definition of impoliteness in the English dictionary

The definition of impoliteness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being discourteous, rude or uncivil.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPOLITENESS


adroitness
əˈdrɔɪtnɪs
appropriateness
əˈprəʊprɪɪtnɪs
aquafitness
ˈækwəˌfɪtnɪs
brightness
ˈbraɪtnɪs
eyewitness
ˈaɪˌwɪtnɪs
fitness
ˈfɪtnɪs
forthrightness
ˈfɔːθraɪtnɪs
greatness
ˈɡreɪtnɪs
lateness
ˈleɪtnɪs
lightness
ˈlaɪtnɪs
politeness
pəˈlaɪtnɪs
reconditeness
rɪˈkɒndaɪtnɪs
rightness
ˈraɪtnɪs
slightness
ˈslaɪtnɪs
tightness
ˈtaɪtnɪs
triteness
ˈtraɪtnɪs
unfitness
ʌnˈfɪtnɪs
uprightness
ˈʌpˌraɪtnɪs
whiteness
ˈwaɪtnɪs
witness
ˈwɪtnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPOLITENESS

impolder
impolicies
impolicy
impolite
impolitely
impolitic
impoliticly
impoliticness
imponderabilia
imponderability
imponderable
imponderableness
imponderably
impone
imponent
imporous
import
import ban
import duty
import levy

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPOLITENESS

adhesiveness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
doneness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of impoliteness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IMPOLITENESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «impoliteness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of impoliteness

Translation of «impoliteness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPOLITENESS

Find out the translation of impoliteness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of impoliteness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «impoliteness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无礼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descortesía
570 millions of speakers

English

impoliteness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अभद्रता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قلة ذوق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

невежливость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

impoliteness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অশিষ্টতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impolitesse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakpastian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unhöflichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失礼
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

버릇
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Impoliteness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiếu phép lịch sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

impoliteness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अरूपता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kabalık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scortesia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieuprzejmość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неввічливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

impolitețea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγένεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbeleefd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

impoliteness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

impoliteness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of impoliteness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOLITENESS»

The term «impoliteness» is normally little used and occupies the 116.838 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of impoliteness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «impoliteness».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOLITENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «impoliteness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «impoliteness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about impoliteness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPOLITENESS»

Discover the use of impoliteness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to impoliteness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence
This book offers penetrating insights into a hitherto neglected and poorly understood phenomenon. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics and social psychology in particular.
Jonathan Culpeper, 2011
2
Impoliteness in Interaction
This book, the first of its kind on the subject, considers the role that impoliteness has to play by drawing extracts from a range of discourse types (car parking disputes, army and police training, police-public interactions and kitchen ...
Derek Bousfield, 2008
3
Impoliteness in Language: Studies on its Interplay with ...
Drawing on a wide range of empirical data, the volume presents a thorough discussion of impoliteness and power in language.
Derek Bousfield, Miriam A. Locher, 2008
4
Discursive Approaches to Politeness
This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness.
Linguistic Politeness Research Group, 2011
5
Historical (im)politeness
This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness.
Jonathan Culpeper, Dániel Z. Kádár, 2010
6
Impoliteness in Context
The book is one of the earliest studies to investigate impoliteness within a multilingual and multicultural African context.
Busayo Ige, 2011
7
Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis
Chapter. 3. Rethinking. politeness,. impoliteness. and. gender. identity. Sara. Mills. Sheffield Hallam University, UK Introduction In this chapter, I aim to bring together new theoretical work on gender from feminist linguistics with new theorising ...
Lia Litosseliti, Jane Sunderland, 2002
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Gender and Politeness
Introduction There has been surprisingly little analysis of impoliteness itself, in research on politeness in general; perhaps this can be attributed to the fact that much of the research is dependent on a view of conversation which 'emphasises  ...
Sara Mills, 2003
9
Understanding Historical (im)politeness: Relational ...
This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011).
Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, 2012
10
Interpersonal Pragmatics
Situating impoliteness and rudeness within a nascent prototype approach Assuming the acceptability of the argument made in Section 4 above, in that ( interactional) concepts and labels are socially acquired and, hence, socially shared, but ...
Miriam A. Locher, Sage L. Graham, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPOLITENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term impoliteness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rudeness in the workplace 'spreads like a virus' - Daily Mail
'You'll see more rudeness even if it's not there.' The findings provide the first evidence that everyday impoliteness spreads in the workplace. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Harvard: The Land Where Nothing Is On Time
I work myself up over other people's impoliteness, and I can't help it. Sometimes I tell myself to calm down and stand in their shoes. Harvard is the kind of place ... «Harvard Magazine, Jul 15»
3
Harvard: The Land Where Nothing Is On Time | Harvard Magazine
I work myself up over other people's impoliteness, and I can't help it. Sometimes I tell myself to calm down and stand in their shoes. Harvard is ... «Harvard Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Pleas for fresh contempt charge against Zafrullah Chy
Observing that keeping an accused standing in the dock while delivering the verdict 'impoliteness', he had said, “There can't be justice where ... «Prothom Alo, Jul 15»
5
Apple's Siri can now hold two-way discussions with clients
Nonetheless, Siri has earned a notoriety for being a snide, frequently cheeky, companion, which is unlikely to tolerate impoliteness or poor ... «Times Gazette, Jul 15»
6
Keeping workplace bullying at bay
... with their consequences of harm and powerlessness for targets, distinguish them from impoliteness, mild sarcasm, casual teasing, humour, ... «Livemint, Jun 15»
7
Daniel Robbins: Give us daily body count of victims of police killings
Many have learned that impoliteness to a police officer is hazardous to their health. And too many have learned that running from a police ... «Madison.com, Jun 15»
8
Kubica backs Alonso's huge challenge
That apparent impoliteness was evident even to McLaren-Honda during the Canadian grand prix, when Alonso said he rejected a radio ... «GrandPrix, Jun 15»
9
Rouhani defends Iran nuclear negotiators
Where did that impoliteness come from?” Rouhani's remarks came as the Iranian foreign minister, accompanied by Abbas Araqchi, a senior ... «Press TV, May 15»
10
Seven Golden Moments with Kids in the Hall
... servant of Satan who celebrates what's surely a Canadian version of evil, marked by mild impoliteness and harmless white lies. «Portland Monthly, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Impoliteness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/impoliteness>. Apr 2024 ».
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