Infidelity vs Dishonesty - What's the difference?
infidelity | dishonesty |
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:
Lack of religious belief.
* Bishop Ward
(uncountable) The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
* 1602 , , act 3 scene 4,
(countable) An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest.
As nouns the difference between infidelity and dishonesty
is that 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 while dishonesty is (uncountable) the characteristic or condition of being dishonest.infidelity
English
Noun
(infidelities)- 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.
- 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) faithlessnessAntonyms
* (moral) faithfulness * (moral) loyalty * (moral) fidelitySee also
* (wikipedia "infidelity")dishonesty
English
Noun
(dishonesties)- His dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him.
