Meaning

3 senses
  1. The state or act of keeping faith.

    (countable, uncountable)Constancy of support, alliance, and respect.

    Near-synonym: devotion

    His faithfulness to his wife and family was admired.

    Treue, Ergebenheit, Genauigkeit

    ве́рностьvérnostʹ, пре́данностьprédannostʹ

    ві́рністьvírnistʹ, ві́дданістьvíddanistʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)Constancy of belief.

    His faithfulness kept him going through the darkest times.

  3. The state of being faithful.

    (countable, uncountable)Consistency; exactness in copying or following.

    faithfulness to the original

More definitions
  • the quality of being faithful

Examples

12 sentences
  1. She began to doubt his faithfulness.

  2. They built a relationship founded on faithfulness.

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  3. The bride and groom swore faithfulness and love until death.

    ruЖених и невеста поклялись в верности и любви до конца своих дней. — Wezel

  4. The oldest preserved with faithfulness, the new in a friendly manner.

    deÄltestes bewahrt mit Treue, freundlich aufgefasstes Neue. — Esperantostern

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  5. I don't want to give up my independence in the sake of marital faithfulness.

Translations

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Origin

From Middle English feithfulnesse, equivalent to faithful + -ness.

From Middle English feithfulnesse, equivalent to faithful + -ness.

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Forms

plural: faithfulnesses
Singularfaithfulness
Pluralfaithfulnesses

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfaithful

See also

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