| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
Synonyms: |
betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, falseness, fickleness, fraud, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, skepticism, treacherousness, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness |
Antonyms: |
belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
antichristian, atheistic, bigoted, blasphemous, canting, carnal, deistical, desecrating, devoutless, earthly, faithless, fanatical, freethinking, godless, graceless, hardened, hypocritical, idolatrous, impious, incredulous, indevout, irreligious, irreverent, lacking faith, mammon worship, mundane, overrighteous, perverted, pharisaical, pietistical, priest, reprobate, righteous overmuch, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, skeptical, unbelieving, unchristian, unconverted, unctuous, undevout, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unsanctified, without God, worldly, worldly
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| Main Entry: | defection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
Synonyms: |
alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreancy, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, severance, sundering, tergiversation, withdrawal |
Antonyms: |
joining |
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | disloyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfaithfulness |
Synonyms: |
apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, deceitfulness, disaffection, double-dealing, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, sedition, seditiousness, subversive activity, treachery, treason, untrueness, violation |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness, loyalty, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering |
Antonyms: |
belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust |
| Main Entry: | duplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
Synonyms: |
Judas kiss, artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, dualism, duality, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, perfidiousness, perfidy, skullduggery, stab in back, treacherousness, treachery, two-facedness, twoness |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
Synonyms: |
canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double-dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidiousness, perfidy, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, uncandidness, unfaithfulness, unreality, untruth |
Antonyms: |
honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | infidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty to an obligation |
Synonyms: |
adultery, affair, bad faith, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, extramarital relations, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, lewdness, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | skepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, apprehension, disbelief, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, hesitation, indecision, lack of confidence, leeriness, questioning, reluctance, suspicion, uncertainty |