DISLOYALTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disloyalty mean? 

• DISLOYALTY (noun)
  The noun DISLOYALTY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being disloyal

  Familiarity information: DISLOYALTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISLOYALTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being disloyal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("disloyalty" is a kind of...):

infidelity; unfaithfulness (the quality of being unfaithful)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disloyalty"):

disaffection (disloyalty to the government or to established authority)

subversiveness; traitorousness; treason (disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior)

perfidiousness; perfidy; treachery (betrayal of a trust)

Antonym:

loyalty (the quality of being loyal)

 Context examples 

And then he condemned the fear as a disloyalty, and broke the seal.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He consoled himself for the seeming disloyalty by the thought that Jo's sister was almost the same as Jo's self, and the conviction that it would have been impossible to love any other woman but Amy so soon and so well.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)