FAITHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faithfulness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being faithful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAITHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being faithful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

faithfulness; fidelity

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

faithful (steadfast in affection or allegiance)

unfaithful (not true to duty or obligation or promises)

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

constancy (faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity))

dedication (complete and wholehearted fidelity)

loyalty; trueness (the quality of being loyal)

Antonym:

unfaithfulness (the quality of being unfaithful)

Derivation:

faithful (marked by fidelity to an original)

faithful (steadfast in affection or allegiance)

faithful (not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend)

 Context examples 

Hannah is faithfulness itself, and our good neighbor will guard you as if you were his own.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This faithfulness was a quality of the clay that composed him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His first betrothed heard of this, and fretted so much about his faithfulness that she nearly died.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Faithfulness and willingness characterised his toil.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But there was his faithfulness, and he went back to be betrayed yet a third time.

(White Fang, by Jack London)