Verity vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
verity | fidelity |
(archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
* 1602 : , act V scene 2
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
A true statement; an established doctrine.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
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 a proper noun verity
is derived from the latin for truth; one of the puritan virtue names.As a noun fidelity is
faithfulness to one's duties.verity
English
Noun
(verities)- [...] but in the verity of extolment
- I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
- of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
- him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
- trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
- For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
- Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.
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.