fidelitie

Noun

fidelity (countable and uncountable, plural fidelities)

1. (uncountable) 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.
   • the fidelity of the civil servants to their country

   Antonyms:

   infidelity

   1. Faithfulness or loyalty to one's partner or spouse, including restraint from romantic or sexual relationships with third parties.
      • In vvhat other houſe, public or private, can equal ſecurity be found for the fidelity of the married, for the chaſtity of the ſingle, and for the extinction of drunkenneſs, that murderous infatuation, in compariſon of vvhich every thing elſe that goes by the name of vice is virtue?1791, Jeremy Bentham, “§ 16. Provision for Liberated Prisoners.”, in Panopticon: Postscript; Part II: Containing a Plan of Management for a Panopticon Penitentiary-house, London: […] T[homas] Payne...
   2. (archaic) Faithfulness to God and one's religion.
      • Near-synonym: faith
2. (broadly) Accuracy, or exact correspondence, to some given fact or quality; exactness.
   • [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions with any adequate fidelity: but there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of his [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty, which, like Christianity, qualifies the...1850, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Shakspeare; or, The Poet”, in Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […], →OCLC, page 201

   Antonyms:

   infidelity

3. (broadly) The closeness of association between an organism and a plant community.
4. (broadly) Chiefly in high fidelity, low fidelity, etc.: the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input such as an image or sound.
   • 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.2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page 58

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