Adultery vs Infidelity - What's the difference?
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Adultery is a synonym of infidelity. As nouns the difference between adultery and infidelity is that adultery is sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse while infidelity is unfaithfulness in marriage: practice or instance of having a sexual or romantic affair with someone other than one's spouse, without the consent of the spouse.
adultery Alternative forms
* advowtry (obsolete)
Noun
( adulteries)
Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
- She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
(Bible) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(Bible) Faithlessness in religion.
- And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (King James Version)
(obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
(ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
(obsolete) adulteration; corruption
- (Ben Jonson)
(obsolete) injury; degradation; ruin
* Ben Jonson
- You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.
Related terms
* adulter
* adulterate
* adulterer
* adulteress
* adulterine
* adulterise
* adulterous
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infidelity English
Noun
( infidelities)
Unfaithfulness in marriage: practice or instance of having a sexual or romantic affair with someone other than one's spouse, without the consent of the spouse.
Unfaithfulness in some other moral obligation.
* 1937 , Arnold Oskar Meyer, England in German opinion throughout the centuries , page 6:
- It was disastrous that England's infidelity towards Frederick the Great — which no one, not even a German, condemned more strongly than did William Pitt — had to affect one of the most popular heroes of our national history.
Lack of religious belief.
* Bishop Ward
- The means used to this purpose are partly didactical, and partly protreptical; demonstrating the truth of the gospel, and then urging the professors of those truths to be stedfast(SIC) in the faith, and to beware of infidelity .
Synonyms
* (marital) adultery
* (moral) betrayal
* (religious) faithlessness
Antonyms
* (moral) faithfulness
* (moral) loyalty
* (moral) fidelity
Related terms
* (religious) infidel
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