infidelity
English
Etymology
From Middle French infidélité, from Latin infidelitas. Equivalent to infidel + -ity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/
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Noun
infidelity (countable and uncountable, plural infidelities)
- 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.
- 2013, William G. Staples, Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility, →ISBN, page 155:
- Your friends tell you rumors about your girlfriend's infidelity or you remember being broken up around the time the baby was conceived.
- Unfaithfulness in some other moral obligation.
- 1937, Arnold Oskar Meyer, England in German opinion throughout the centuries, page 6:
- It was disastrous that England's infidelity towards Frederick the Great — which no one, not even a German, condemned more strongly than did William Pitt — had to affect one of the most popular heroes of our national history.
- Lack of religious belief.
- 1674, Seth Ward, Seven Sermons:
- The means used to this purpose are partly didactical, and partly protreptical; demonstrating the truth of the gospel, and then urging the professors of those truths to be stedfast[sic] in the faith, and to beware of infidelity.
Synonyms
- (marital): Synonyms: adultery; see also Thesaurus:cuckoldry
- (moral): betrayal
- (religious): faithlessness
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “moral”): faithfulness
- (antonym(s) of “moral”): loyalty
- (antonym(s) of “moral”): fidelity
Related terms
- (religious): infidel
Translations
unfaithfulness in marriage or other moral obligation
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lack of religious belief
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See also
- infidelity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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