faithfulness
noun
faithfulness is a noun meaning “Constancy of support, alliance, and respect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-I-T-H-F-U-L-N-E-S-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faithfulness is faithfulnesses.
What does faithfulness mean?
noun
- 1
Constancy of support, alliance, and respect.
Near-synonym: devotion
- 2
Constancy of belief.
His faithfulness kept him going through the darkest times.
- 3
Consistency; exactness in copying or following.
faithfulness to the original
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce faithfulness?
- US
Faithfulness has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-faithfulness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of faithfulness
- faithfulnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faithfulness?
Faithfulness appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Faithfulness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state of being faithful:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fidélité |
| German | Treue, Ergebenheit, Genauigkeit, Werktreue |
| Portuguese | lealdade, fidelidade |
| Spanish | fidelidad, lealtad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does faithfulness come from?
From Middle English feithfulnesse, equivalent to faithful + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).