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no fidelity

adj

Etymology

Modeled after, and postdating, high fidelity and low fidelity.

Definitions

  1. Extremely low fidelity.

    • Near-synonyms: low fidelity, lo-fi, LoFi, lofi
    • He busted out an ancient no-fidelity tabletop radio and proceeded to play some tinny music from the AM dial.

  2. Involving no electronics at all, being an original (unreproduced) noise.

    • Get a load of my no-fidelity radio: my neighbor is singing off-tune while he weeds his garden.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for no fidelity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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