impertinence

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• UK: /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nəns/
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• US: /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nəns/
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• US, rare: /ɪmˈpɝt.nəns/
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Borrowed from Middle French impertinence, from impertinent (“impertinent”); by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: неуместност (neumestnost) — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Dutch: irrelevantie — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Unbedeutendheit — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Unerheblichkeit — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Unmaßgeblichkeit — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Unbedeutsamkeit — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Irrelevanz — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Belanglosigkeit — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• German: Unwichtigkeit — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Persian: بی قرار (bi qarâr) — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Portuguese: impertinência — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Romanian: irelevanță — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Russian: неуместность (neumestnostʹ) — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Spanish: impertinencia — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Welsh: amherthnasoldeb — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Welsh: amherthnasedd — Lack of pertinence; irrelevance
• Dutch: brutaliteit — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Persian: بی قراری (bi qarâri) — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Romanian: impertinență — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Spanish: impertinencia — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Spanish: exabrupto — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Spanish: salida de tono — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Welsh: amherthnasoldeb — An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent
• Danish: uforskammethed — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Dutch: ongepastheid — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Dutch: ongeschiktheid — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• German: Unangebrachtheit — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• German: Ungehörigkeit — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Greek: απρέπεια (aprépeia) — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: brusaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: cocaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: dosaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: dradaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: pastaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: plucaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: smuigíneacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: tagracht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: táthaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Irish: teallaireacht — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Welsh: amhriodoldeb — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Welsh: cam-drefn — The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness
• Bulgarian: наглост (naglost) — insolence
• Bulgarian: нахалство (nahalstvo) — insolence
• Dutch: onbeschaamdheid — insolence
• Dutch: brutaliteit — insolence
• German: Unverfrorenheit — insolence
• German: Unverschämtheit — insolence
• German: Ungehörigkeit — insolence
• Greek: αμετροέπεια (ametroépeia) — insolence
• Latin: impertinentia — insolence
• Polish: arogancja — insolence
• Polish: bezczelność — insolence
• Polish: bezwstydność — insolence
• Polish: hucpiarstwo — insolence
• Polish: impertynenckość — insolence
• Polish: zuchwalstwo — insolence
• Polish: zuchwałość — insolence
• Polish: impertynencja — insolence
• Ottoman Turkish: پیشانی (pişanî) — insolence
• Welsh: digywilydd-dra — insolence
• Welsh: hyfdra — insolence