А вот интересно, почему это слово, действительно французского происхождения, встречается только на русских сайтах... Пролистал первые 8 страниц "гугла" - всё сплошь русские сайты. А чего, иноземцы что-ли не употребляют это "чисто рууское" слово?

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audacity
1.Fearless daring; intrepidity.
2.Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.
3.An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness: warned the students than any audacities committed during the graduation ceremony would be punished.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

"epatage" is a French word and is not even included into English dictionaries, at least as far as I can tell.


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не, ну конечно, может и ближе вариант будет, кто ж спорит...

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Не только наглость:

Entry: audacity
Function: noun
Definition: recklessness
Synonyms: adventurousness, audaciousness, boldness, bravery, courage, daring, dauntlessness, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, nerve, rashness, valor, venturesomeness
Concept: bravery
Source: Roget\'s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.0.5)
Copyright © 2004 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

русский term (edited): ������

В поддержку ответа "эпатаж" - ссылки.
...фразы Путина - это продуманный личный эпатаж. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_3535000/35358...
В середине слякотной зимы захотелось яркого веселого праздника, тем более, что эпатаж, как понятие, близок по духу организаторам – ведь он, по сути, попытка выделиться на общем, весьма сером фоне. http://www.advertology.ru/article2353.html
Главная тенденция моды сегодня – привлечь внимание любой ценой. И, похоже, именно этой тенденции следуют с особым усердием. Эпатаж – движущая сила лета. http://www.passion.ru/fashion/epataj/


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LONDON, March 8 Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova, or just Kourni, the way numerous fans abroad call her, more known for her epatage behavior
Over 10 years of … And Oceans\' history can tell you a lot: the members easily changed their nicknames, made scandal statements and - most importantly - created talented music. So it was a good chance for MetalKings.com to talk about the new album, life values and epatage with the band\'s singer Kenny.
http://www.metalkings.com/reviews/and-oceans/and-oceans.htm
http://terra-incognita.iatp.org.ua/Ti7/07_01en.html
One could remember the epatage actions of Dada, Russian futurists, Fluxus and Iv Klein’s performances. But the language and imagery of Postmodernism helped a lot to solve this problem.

Не знаю, насколько для Вас эти источники авторитетны, но полагаю, что эти переводчики или журналисты тоже были знакомы и с происхождением слова, и с возможностями его применения в английском языке.

русский term (edited): ������

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Courtney Love: Force of nature
... Courtney Love is in trouble after a number of brushes ... talk show host David Letterman,
Love is probably better known for her provocative behaviour and ...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3569027.stm

"Shock was never my goal," he explains. "It’s too juvenile. Anyone can be shocking. But to be provocative, yes. To be controversial, yes. There’s a point behind it."
http://www.marilynmanson.com/press/030500blender/01.html

русский term (edited): ������

It doesn't convey the exact meaning of the Russian word, but IMHO is one of the closest notions.

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Curiously, \"defiance\" IMO wouldn\'t do as it\'s closer to resistance, struggle than to premeditated shocking.

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To Ann Nosova:

Dear Ann,

sorry but I still beg to disagree with you. Thank you so much for the links you\'ve provided (sincerely!) but in cases of slightest doubt I normally tend to ignore any examples of word use by non-native speakers. No, neither an Ukrainian nor a Russian site contain any info, I could find valuable as regards English language.

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sorry, \"I could find to be of any value\"

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After thinking it over, I agree that \"behaviour\" doesn\'t sound well here: manners/styles etc would be better.

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Or \"attitude\"