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Treachery vs Infidelity - What's the difference?

treachery | infidelity |

As nouns the difference between treachery and infidelity

is that treachery is deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith 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.

treachery

English

Noun

(treacheries)
  • Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
  • The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
  • Treason.
  • Synonyms

    * Punic faith * treacherousness

    Derived terms

    * treacher * treacherous

    infidelity

    English

    Noun

    (infidelities)
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • Lack of religious belief.
  • * Bishop Ward
  • 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) faithlessness

    Antonyms

    * (moral) faithfulness * (moral) loyalty * (moral) fidelity