infidelity
nounEtymology
From Middle English infidelite, from Middle French infidelité (modern French infidélité) and its etymon Latin īnfidēlitās. Equivalent to infidel + -ity.
- derived from īnfidēlitās
- derived from infidelité
- inherited from infidelite
Definitions
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.
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.
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
- synonymcuckoldry
- antonymfaithfulnessantonym(s) of “moral”
- antonymloyaltyantonym(s) of “moral”
- antonymfidelityantonym(s) of “moral”
- neighborinfidel
- neighborlow fidelity
- neighbornullifidianism
- neighborunfaithfulness
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.
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