Unfaithfulness

Definition: Unfaithfulness

Unfaithfulness

Noun

1. The quality of being unfaithful.

Date "unfaithfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonym: Unfaithfulness

Synonym: infidelity (n). (additional references)

Antonym: fidelity (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unfaithfulness

English words defined with "unfaithfulness": faithlessness, falseness, fickleness ♦ inconstancy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unfaithfulness": Cabbage, Canary Birds, Coral ♦ Diamonds ♦ Elopement ♦ Glass ♦ Hair, Hermit, Husband ♦ Indistinct ♦ Medal, Monkey ♦ Nuns ♦ Poinard ♦ Question ♦ Spider, Spirit or Specter ♦ Vow ♦ Wooden Shoe. (references)

Author	Quotation
Horace Mann	Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unfaithfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfaithfulness" is used about 31 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%	31	62,296

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unfaithfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pabesi (disloyalty, falseness, falsity, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, perjury, recreancy). (various references)

Arabic		‏خيانة (betrayal, cheating, deception, disloyalty, double cross, faithlessness, infidelity, perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason). (various references)

Czech		nevìra (infidelity), nepřesnost (inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness), neloajálnost (disloyalty). (various references)

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

French		infidélité. (various references)

German		Untreue (betrayal, disloyalty, embezzlement, infidelity, perfidy). (various references)

Greek		απιστία (disbelief, disloyalty, disloyalty to, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, unbelief). (various references)

Italian		infedelt� (disloyalty, infidelity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不貞 (infidelity, unchastity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふし�"じつ (insincerity), ふし�" (building, center of buoyancy, construction, depression, discredit, disloyalty, distrust, doing everything one can, doubt, dullness, incomplete understanding, infidelity, insincerity, mistrust, perfidy, question, racking one's brains, slump, stagnation, strangeness, suspicion, taking pains to), ふてい (inconstancy, indefinite, infidelity, insecurity, insubordination, outlawry, uncertainty, unchastity, undecided), ふちゅうじつ (disloyalty). (various references)

Manx		neuynrickys (imperfection, improbity, insincerity), neuhreishteilys (infidelity), neufirrinid (fictitiousness, insincerity, perfidiousness), neuchruinnid (haziness, inexactitude). (various references)

Pig Latin		aithfulnessunfay

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

Spanish		infidelidad (infidelity). (various references)

Turkish		sadakâtsizlik (disloyalty, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính sai sự thật, tính phản bội tính không trung thực, tính không trung th� nh. (various references)

Welsh		anffyddlondeb. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unfaithfulness": unfaithfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unfaithfulness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unfithfulness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-h-i-l-n-n-s-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: faithfulness.
	-3 letters: insufflates.
	-4 letters: faultiness, fitfulness, flatfishes, insufflate, nautiluses, snuffliest, unaffluent, unfaithful.
	-5 letters: affluents, annuluses, faintness, faithfuls, faithless, fauteuils, flashiest, halituses, huffiness, influents, insulants, insulates, shinleafs, snuffiest, sufflates, unfastens, unfitness, unselfish.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-h-i-l-n-n-s-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: unfaithfulnesses.
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