fidelity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Faithfulness to one's duties.
2. (countable, uncountable) Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
3. (countable, uncountable) Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
4. (countable, uncountable) The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Synonyms

loyalty

faithfulness

allegiance

chastity

honesty

faith

constancy

accuracy

integrity

fealty

virtue

truth

exactness

devotion

adherence

precision

correctness

sincerity

trustworthiness

authenticity

confidence

credibility

honor

modesty

trueness

trust

reliability

stanchness

fact

loyal

loyality

exactitude

acuity

partisanship

perspicacity

piety

dignity

probity

purity

reality

reliance

sharpness

devoted

stanch

staunchness

steadfastness

troth

feminine modesty

fidelity factor

dedication

Translations

fidélité

fidelidad

fedeltà

Treue

fidelidade

lealdade

getrouwheid

Genauigkeit

trouw

lealtà

Loyalität

sadakat

loyauté

fidelitat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/

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.