shamelessness
Total lack of embarrassment
Shamelessness is the quality of being unbothered by behavior that would normally cause embarrassment or guilt.
It implies conduct that violates social norms without apparent remorse: the shamelessness of his lies, She spoke with shamelessness about her affair.
The word carries judgment—shamelessness suggests someone *should* feel shame but doesn't.
Shameless, admirable audacity
- gallImpudent boldness or bitterness
- nerveSignal-carrying body fiber
- effronteryShameless, insolent boldness
- temerityReckless audacity
brass · brazenness · cheek · presumption · impertinence · insolence · barefacedness · boldface
Free from self-censorship
- unrestrainedNot held back
- unconstrainedHaving no restrictions
- liberatedReleased from confinement
- unfetteredFree from restriction
immodesty · indecency · impropriety · indelicacy · exhibitionism · licentiousness · wantonness · abandon
Feeling no remorse
- unapologeticShowing no remorse
- unblushingLacking capacity for shame
- unabashedFeeling no shame
- unembarrassedLacking self-conscious discomfort
brazen · blatant · flagrant · remorseless · impenitent · incorrigible · hardened · obstinate
Profound moral corruption
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- degeneracyMoral or physical decline
- dissoluteIndulgent and immoral
- profligacyReckless, wasteful extravagance
immorality · unscrupulousness · disrepute · indecorum · impropriety · disgracefulness · ignominy · dishonor
chutzpah
Shameless, admirable audacity
- gallImpudent boldness or bitterness
- nerveSignal-carrying body fiber
- effronteryShameless, insolent boldness
temerity · brass · brazenness · cheek · presumption · impertinence · insolence · barefacedness · boldface · front
uninhibited
Free from self-censorship
- unrestrainedNot held back
- unconstrainedHaving no restrictions
- liberatedReleased from confinement
unfettered · immodesty · indecency · impropriety · indelicacy · exhibitionism · licentiousness · wantonness · abandon · unreserved
unrepentant
Feeling no remorse
- unapologeticShowing no remorse
- unblushingLacking capacity for shame
- unabashedFeeling no shame
unembarrassed · brazen · blatant · flagrant · remorseless · impenitent · incorrigible · hardened · obstinate · unreformed
depravity
Profound moral corruption
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- degeneracyMoral or physical decline
- dissoluteIndulgent and immoral
profligacy · immorality · unscrupulousness · disrepute · indecorum · impropriety · disgracefulness · ignominy · dishonor · turpitude
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- Buddhist Defilementsdosa, greed, hatred, delusion, ignorance
- CynicismDiogenes, asceticism, self-sufficiency
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
- gracelessnessclumsiness, awkwardness, boorishness, rudeness, vulgarity
shamelessnessshame
Painful awareness of failure
modesty · guilt · humility · remorse · contrition
shamelessnesstimidity
Fearful lack of courage
reticence · reserve · inhibition · circumspection · discretion
shamelessnesstimidity
Fearful lack of courage
embarrassment · self-consciousness · sheepishness · abashment · mortification
shame, ashamed, shameful, shamed, shaming, shameless, unashamed, shames, shamefully