Probity vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
probity | fidelity |
integrity
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 1,
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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:
As nouns the difference between probity and fidelity
is that probity is integrity while fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.probity
English
Noun
(probities)- … they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, …
Synonyms
* decency, goodness, godliness, honesty, honor, saintliness, uprightness, virtue, righteousnessAntonyms
* wickednessExternal links
* *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.