fidelity
Pronunciation: /fɪˈdɛlɪti/
The English word “fidelity” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this.
- Faithfulness or loyalty to one's partner or spouse, including restraint from romantic or sexual relationships with third parties.
- Faithfulness to God and one's religion.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence, to some given fact or quality; exactness.
- The closeness of association between an organism and a plant community.
- Chiefly in high fidelity, low fidelity, etc.: the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input such as an image or sound.
- In by one's fidelity, to break fidelity, to give fidelity, etc.: one's pledge or promise to act in good faith; an oath, a word of honour.
- Of a person: honesty, trustworthiness; (countable) an instance of this.
Etymology
From Late Middle English fidelite (“allegiance, fealty; faithfulness, trust; agreement made in good faith”), from Old French fidélité (“faithfulness, fidelity”) (modern French fidélité), from Latin fidēlitās (“faithfulness, fidelity”), from fidēlis (“dependable, trustworthy; faithful, loyal”) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns denoting a state of being). Fidēlis is derived from fidēs…
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