defamation

• Arabic: التشهير
• Chinese (Mandarin): 诽谤
• French: diffamation
• German: Verleumdung
• Hindi: मानहानि
• Japanese: 名誉毀損
• Korean: 명예 훼손
• Polish: zniesławienie
• Portuguese: difamação
• Russian: клевета
• Spanish: difamación
• Thai: การหมิ่นประมาท / การใส่ร้าย
• Turkish: iftira / hakaret
• Vietnamese: phỉ báng / vu khống

Abstract Noun: "Defamation" is an abstract noun because it refers to the act of damaging someone’s reputation through false or harmful statements. It is a legal and social concept, intangible and based on perception, speech, and reputation rather than physical reality.

It is uncountable: “She filed a lawsuit for defamation after the article was published.”

From Latin diffamatio, from diffamare (“to spread abroad by ill fame”), from dis- (“away”) + fama (“report, rumor, reputation”).

• The act of communicating false statements about a person that injure their reputation.
• A spoken (slander) or written (libel) form of damaging communication that can lead to legal action.
• A legal term for reputational harm caused by untrue public statements.

• He sued the magazine for defamation after they published false accusations.
• Online defamation can spread rapidly through social media.
• Laws around defamation vary between countries, especially regarding public figures.