Faithlessness

Definition: Faithlessness

Faithlessness

Noun

1. Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous.

Date "faithlessness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Synonyms: Faithlessness

Synonyms: falseness (n), fickleness (n), inconstancy (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improbity	Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Faithlessness

English words defined with "faithlessness": Unfaith. (references)

Specialty definitions using "faithlessness": Suicide ♦ Thread. (references)

Etymologies containing "faithlessness": Unfaith. (references)

"Faithlessness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Faithlessness" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

Language		Translations for "faithlessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏خيانة (betrayal, cheating, deception, disloyalty, double cross, infidelity, perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness). (various references)

Finnish		uskottomuus (disloyalty, unfaithfulness). (various references)

German		Unglaube (disbelief, discredit, skepticism, unbelief). (various references)

Greek		δολιότητα (deceitfulness, fraudulence, fraudulency, snakiness, trappiness, treachery). (various references)

Hungarian		hűtlenség (breach of faith, disaffection, disloyalty, perfidy, treachery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		心変わり (change one's mind, inconstancy), 不実 (falsehood, inconstancy, insincerity, perfidiousness), 不信義 (insincerity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふし�"ぎ (insincerity), ふじつ (at an early date, falsehood, in a few days, inconstancy, insincerity, perfidiousness), �"�"ろがわり (change one's mind, inconstancy). (various references)

Korean		불� 앙 (impious). (various references)

Manx		mee-ynricks (disingenuousness, imperfection, insincerity), meechredjue (agnosticism, disbelief, incredulity, scepticism, unbelief). (various references)

Pig Latin		aithlessnessfay.(various references)

Romanian		necredinţã (disloyalty, infidelity, misbelief, perfidiousness, unbelief, unfaithfulness). (various references)

Turkmen		biwepalyk. (various references)

Vietnamese		tính lật lọng sự thất tín, sự vô đạo tính xảo trá, sự bất trung sự không tin cậy được. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	infidelitas, perfidia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "faithlessness": faithlessnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-i-l-n-s-s-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: flashinesses.
	-2 letters: hastinesses, saltinesses, selfishness, stainlesses.
	-3 letters: ashinesses, essentials, fastnesses, flashiness, flatnesses, fleshiness, halfnesses, saltnesses.
	-4 letters: asthenies, essential, esthesias, faithless, falseness, fatnesses, fitnesses, flashiest, fleshiest, hastiness, heftiness, litheness, natheless, saltiness, shiftless, shinleafs, stainless, staleness.
	-5 letters: antheses, anthesis, ashiness, easiness, elastins, esthesia, esthesis, etesians, fastness, fealties, felsites, fetiales, fetishes, finesses, fishless, fishnets, flatness, haleness, halfness, heatless, heliasts, hessians, hessites, inflates, lateness, leafiest, nailsets, nathless, safeness, safeties, salients, saltines, saltness, sassiest, seatless, selfness, sensates, sestinas, sestines, setlines, shaliest, shanties, sheitans, shelties, shinleaf, sthenias, teniases, theelins.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-h-i-l-n-s-s-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: faithlessnesses, lightfastnesses.
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