HOW TO PRONOUNCE
fidelity
/fɪˈdɛləti/
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What does fidelity mean?
noun
- 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.
- Faithfulness or loyalty to one's partner or spouse, including restraint from romantic or sexual relationships with third parties.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence, to some given fact or quality; exactness.
More meanings (5)
noun
- The closeness of association between an organism and a plant community.
- Chiefly in high fidelity, low fidelity, etc.: the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input such as an image or sound.
- (archaic) Faithfulness to God and one's religion.
- (obsolete) In by one's fidelity, to break fidelity, to give fidelity, etc.: one's pledge or promise to act in good faith; an oath, a word of honour.
- (obsolete) Of a person: honesty, trustworthiness; (countable) an instance of this.
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IPA pronunciation
/fɪˈdɛləti/
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What descriptions I might give of their marriages, the tenderness of the males towards the females, and the fidelity of their loves!
Count Piccolomini, who had distinguished himself by his unparalleled bravery at Lutzen, was the first whose fidelity he put to the proof.
More book examples (3)
If a wife, she will be deceived in her husband's frequent absence, and the real cause will create suspicions of his fidelity.
But even the wax phonogram may be used over and over again, hundreds of times, without diminishing the fidelity of the reproduction.
‘I should cancel with it,’ he pursued, ‘such patience and devotion, such fidelity, such a child’s love, as I must not forget, no!