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PERFIDIOUSNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does perfidiousness mean?

• PERFIDIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun PERFIDIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. betrayal of a trust

Familiarity information: PERFIDIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PERFIDIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Betrayal of a trust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

perfidiousness; perfidy; treachery

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)

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