Reliance vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
reliance | fidelity |
The act of relying on someone or something; trust.
* Macaulay
The condition of being reliant or dependent.
A person or thing which relies on another.
Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
* (Richardson)
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 reliance and fidelity
is that reliance is the act of relying on someone or something; trust while fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.reliance
English
Noun
- In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value.
- The boat was a poor reliance .
Anagrams
*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.