Fidelity vs Authenticity - What's the difference?
fidelity | authenticity |
Faithfulness to one's duties.
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage).
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
* 2003 , Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003 , page 58:
The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
(obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
As nouns the difference between fidelity and authenticity
is that fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties while authenticity is the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.fidelity
English
Noun
- the fidelity of the civil servants
- By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.
Quotations
* 2004', ''High-'''Fidelity Medical Imaging Displays (Aldo Badano, Michael J. Flynn, Jerzy Kanicki, ISBN 0819451916) * 2008 , David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (ISBN 1429212411), page S-305: *: The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures the fidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.Derived terms
* fidelitous * fidelity bond * high fidelityAntonyms
* infidelityExternal links
* *authenticity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
- The authenticity of this painting is questionable.