Infidelity vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
infidelity | fidelity | Antonyms |
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
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:
Fidelity is a antonym of infidelity.
As nouns the difference between infidelity and fidelity
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 fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.infidelity
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(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")fidelity
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- 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.