fidelity

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UK /fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/ US /fᵻˈdɛlədi/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

great | absolute | marital

PREP

with ~

The museum director restored the painting with fidelity to its original colors and style.

~ to

Her commitment to fidelity in her marriage was something she took very seriously.

Definitions

noun

Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.

the fidelity of the civil servants

Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.

Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.

The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

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.

Faithfulness to God and one's religion.

Near-synonym: faith

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the quality of being faithful

faithfulness

Antonyms

infidelity
unfaithfulness

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

the fidelity of the civil servants

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Near-synonym: faith

Wiktionary

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Tatoeba · #411983

It's not the fidelity that bothers him.

Tatoeba · #869550

What bothers him is not the fidelity.

Tatoeba · #869551

Usage Notes

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In some senses, fidelity is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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