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Faithlessness is the noun: the fact or quality of being faithless. It is the broken trust itself, not the person. You can speak of someone’s faithlessness in a marriage, or the faithlessness of an ally who walked away. It is a formal, slightly old word — more at home in a novel, a sermon, or a serious essay than in a text message. Everyday English prefers cheating, betrayal, or being . The shape is simple: take faithless and add -ness, the ending that turns a describing word into a name for a quality. Though actually, using such a big noun can sound as if you are standing far away from the hurt, wrapping it in a long word. It still points at the same wound as faithless: not “no religion,” but loyalty that did not hold.
不忠;背信。名詞。日常更常說「背叛」「不忠」。
組成faithless + -ness (the old ending that names a quality).
同家族的字
- faithlessthe describing word this noun is built from
- faithfulnessthe opposite quality, built the same way with -ness
- faiththe trust that has been broken
- unfaithfulthe everyday cousin for the same broken loyalty
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
faithlessnessnoun
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The quality of being faithless.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。