infidelity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Unfaithfulness in a marriage or an intimate (sexual or romantic) relationship: practice or instance of having a sexual or romantic affair with someone other than one's spouse, without the consent of the spouse.
2. (countable, uncountable) Unfaithfulness in some other moral obligation.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Lack of religious belief.

Synonyms

unfaithfulness

disloyalty

adultery

betrayal

perfidy

unbelief

treachery

treason

defection

sellout

impiety

lack of faith

falsity

fornication

disbelief

perfidiousness

insincerity

incredulity

heresy

nonobservance

paganism

question

❓

strangeness

suspicion

unchastity

unjust

wantonness

cuckoldry

incomplete understanding

breach of promise Perfidy

marital infidelity

affair

atheism

breach of trust

caprice

disaffection

dishonest

distrust

doubt

extramarital

faithlessness

fickleness

heathenism

inaccuracy

inattention

inconstancy

irreligion

lovemaking

misbelief

Translations

infidélité

infidelidad

Verrat

infidelidade

trahison

tradimento

hıyanet

Untreue

خيانة

ihanet

infedeltà

bêbextî

îxanet

xiyanet

Treubruch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English infidelite, from Middle French infidelité (modern French infidélité) and its etymon Latin īnfidēlitās. Equivalent to infidel + -ity.