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unfaith

unfaith noun: absence of faith.

Noun

unfaith (usually uncountable, plural unfaiths)

  1. (usually) Absence of faith.
    • The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy
    • But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution.1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain

Forms of unfaith

pluralunfaiths

Origin of unfaith

From un- + faith.

Questions about unfaith

What does unfaith mean?
Unfaith means absence of faith.
What part of speech is unfaith?
Unfaith is a noun.
What is the plural of unfaith?
The plural of unfaith is unfaiths.

Words near unfaith in the dictionary

  1. unfairness
  2. unfairnesses
  3. unfairs
  4. unfairy
  5. unfairylike
  6. unfaith
  7. unfaithful
  8. unfaithfullness
  9. unfaithfully
  10. unfaithfulness
  11. unfaithfulnesses

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