defamation

defamation

English

Etymology

From Old French diffamacion (French diffamation), from Latin diffāmātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɛfəˈmeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: def‧am‧ation

Noun

defamation (countable and uncountable, plural defamations)

1. The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.

Synonyms

• aspersion, calumny, detraction, false light, libel, slander, aftertale
• See also Thesaurus:slander

Related terms

• defame
• defamatory

Translations

act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication

Azerbaijani: şər-böhtan Bulgarian: клевета (bg) f (kleveta), хула (bg) f (hula) Catalan: difamació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 誹謗／诽谤 (zh), 诽谤 (zh) (fěibàng) Czech: pomluva (cs) f Dutch: laster (nl) m, smaad (nl) m, belastering (nl) f Esperanto: kalumnio Faroese: ærumeiðing f Finnish: (legal term) kunnianloukkaus (fi), (common terms) herjaus (fi), solvaus (fi) French: diffamation (fr) f Georgian: ცილისწამება (cilisc̣ameba), დისკრედიტაცია (disḳrediṭacia), დიფამაცია (dipamacia), რეპუტაციის შელახვა (reṗuṭaciis šelaxva) German: Verleumdung (de) f, Diffamierung (de) f, Schmähung (de) f Greek: δυσφήμιση (el) f (dysfímisi), συκοφαντία (el) f (sykofantía), (defamation of character) συκοφαντική δυσφήμιση f (sykofantikí dysfímisi) Hebrew: השמצה‎ (he) f (hashmatza) Hungarian: rágalmazás (hu) Indonesian: defamasi Irish: clúmhilleadh m, aithisiú m Italian: diffamazione (it) f Japanese: 名誉毀損 (ja) (めいよきそん, meiyokison), 中傷 (ja) (chūshō), 誹謗中傷 (ja) (hibō chūshō) Korean: 중상 (ko) (jungsang) Latin: diffamatio, obtrectatio, diffamatio, obtrectatio Malayalam: അപകീർത്തി (ml) (apakīṟtti), മാനഹാനി (ml) (mānahāni) Maori: orohanga, haohao Norwegian: Bokmål: ærekrenkelse m, ærekrenking m or f Nynorsk: ærekrenking f Polish: zniesławienie (pl) n Portuguese: difamação (pt) f Russian: диффама́ция (ru) f (diffamácija), шельмова́ние (ru) n (šelʹmovánije), клевета́ (ru) f (klevetá), поноше́ние (ru) n (ponošénije), хула́ (ru) f (xulá) Spanish: difamación (es) f Swedish: ärekränkning (sv) c, förtal (sv) n Thai: หมิ่นประมาท (th) (mìn-bprà-màat)