Bad faith (existentialism)

Bad faith - philosophical concept wherein one denies one's total freedom, instead choosing to behave as an inert object. Article “Bad faith (existentialism)” in English Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.95 points.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Bad faith (existentialism)”, its content was written by 97 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 160 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 87 times in English Wikipedia and cited 184 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #59384 in January 2011
• Global: #126760 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #76603 in April 2011
• Global: #129592 in April 2011

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hebrew (he) חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)		40.6074
2	German (de) Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)		33.1328
3	English (en) Bad faith (existentialism)		28.0362
4	Arabic (ar) سوء المعتقد (وجودية)		16.9211
5	Spanish (es) Mala fe (Sartre)		15.2301
6	Finnish (fi) Huono usko		11.1842
7	Korean (ko) 나쁜 믿음		9.8019
8	Portuguese (pt) Má-fé (existencialismo)		0.1863

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bad faith (existentialism)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bad faith (existentialism)		1 344 850
2	Spanish (es) Mala fe (Sartre)		131 348
3	German (de) Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)		68 361
4	Portuguese (pt) Má-fé (existencialismo)		24 718
5	Finnish (fi) Huono usko		15 539
6	Hebrew (he) חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)		2 638
7	Korean (ko) 나쁜 믿음		1 984
8	Arabic (ar) سوء المعتقد (وجودية)		151

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bad faith (existentialism)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bad faith (existentialism)		3 949
2	German (de) Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)		325
3	Spanish (es) Mala fe (Sartre)		238
4	Portuguese (pt) Má-fé (existencialismo)		47
5	Hebrew (he) חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)		41
6	Korean (ko) 나쁜 믿음		38
7	Finnish (fi) Huono usko		33
8	Arabic (ar) سوء المعتقد (وجودية)		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bad faith (existentialism)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bad faith (existentialism)		97
2	German (de) Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)		19
3	Spanish (es) Mala fe (Sartre)		15
4	Hebrew (he) חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)		9
5	Portuguese (pt) Má-fé (existencialismo)		9
6	Finnish (fi) Huono usko		7
7	Korean (ko) 나쁜 믿음		3
8	Arabic (ar) سوء المعتقد (وجودية)		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bad faith (existentialism)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سوء المعتقد (وجودية)		0
2	German (de) Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)		0
3	English (en) Bad faith (existentialism)		0
4	Spanish (es) Mala fe (Sartre)		0
5	Finnish (fi) Huono usko		0
6	Hebrew (he) חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)		0
7	Korean (ko) 나쁜 믿음		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Má-fé (existencialismo)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bad faith (existentialism)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bad faith (existentialism)		87
2	Arabic (ar) سوء المعتقد (وجودية)		65
3	Spanish (es) Mala fe (Sartre)		11
4	German (de) Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)		9
5	Hebrew (he) חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)		5
6	Finnish (fi) Huono usko		4
7	Portuguese (pt) Má-fé (existencialismo)		2
8	Korean (ko) 나쁜 믿음		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سوء المعتقد (وجودية)
de	German Unaufrichtigkeit (Sartre)
en	English Bad faith (existentialism)
es	Spanish Mala fe (Sartre)
fi	Finnish Huono usko
he	Hebrew חוסר תום לב (אקזיסטנציאליזם)
ko	Korean 나쁜 믿음
pt	Portuguese Má-fé (existencialismo)

Best Rank

English: #76603 04.2011

Global: #129592 04.2011

Best Rank

English: #59384 01.2011

Global: #126760 12.2016

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