fidelity

== English == === Etymology === 15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (“faithful”), from fidēs (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/, /faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/ (US) IPA(key): /fᵻˈdɛlədi/ Hyphenation: fi‧del‧i‧ty === Noun === fidelity (countable and uncountable, plural fidelities) Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties. Synonym: allegiance Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs. Antonym: infidelity Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact. The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input. (archaic) Faithfulness to God and one's religion. Antonyms: infidelity, irreligion, nullifidianism Hypernym: loyalty Near-synonym: faith ==== Quotations ==== ==== Antonyms ==== infidelity ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== affidavit bide faith ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “fidelity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fidelity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.