infidelity

noun
/ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from īnfidēlitās
  2. derived from infidelité
  3. inherited from infidelite

Definitions

  1. Unfaithfulness in a marriage or an intimate (sexual or romantic) relationship

    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.

    • Your friends tell you rumors about your girlfriend's infidelity or you remember being broken up around the time the baby was conceived.
  2. Unfaithfulness in some other moral obligation.

    • 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.
  3. Lack of religious belief.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at infidelity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01infidelity02unfaithfulness03unfaithful04adulterous05adultery06cuckoldry07cuckold

A definitional loop anchored at infidelity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at infidelity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA