UNFAITHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfaithfulness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being unfaithful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFAITHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being unfaithful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

infidelity; unfaithfulness

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

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

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

faithlessness; falseness; fickleness; inconstancy (unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous)

disloyalty (the quality of being disloyal)

Antonym:

faithfulness (the quality of being faithful)

Derivation:

unfaithful (not true to duty or obligation or promises)

unfaithful (having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend)

unfaithful (having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor)