Misstep vs Infidelity - What's the difference?
misstep | infidelity |
A step that is wrong, a false step.
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(figurative) An error or mistake.
to step badly or incorrectly
to make an error or mistake
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
As nouns the difference between misstep and infidelity
is that misstep is a step that is wrong, a false step 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.As a verb misstep
is to step badly or incorrectly.misstep
English
Noun
(en noun)- On a high ledge, a misstep could be fatal.
- burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. He remembered only to avoid a misstep and to keep his direction.
- His comment was a misstep that could cost him.
Synonyms
* (error) error, faux pas, mistakeVerb
- My dance partner misstepped and landed on my toe.
- I don't want to misstep ; is this the right way?
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 .
