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PERFIDIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Betrayal of a trust
Synonyms:
perfidiousness; perfidy; treachery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("perfidiousness" is a kind of...):
disloyalty (the quality of being disloyal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfidiousness"):
insidiousness (the quality of being designed to entrap)
Derivation:
perfidious (tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans)
