- fi·del·i·ty
- /fəˈdɛləti/ noun [noncount]
She began to doubt her husband's fidelity. [=to wonder if he was having an affair with another woman]
sexual fidelity
— often + tohis fidelity to his wife
opposite ↑infidelity— usually + to2 : the degree to which something matches or copies something else— + toThe movie's director insisted on total fidelity to the book. [=insisted that the story told in the movie should accurately copy the story told in the book]
3 : the degree to which a device (such as a CD player, radio, or television) correctly reproduces sounds, pictures, etc.music with much higher fidelity than on cassettes
a printer with outstanding color fidelity [=a printer that produces very accurate colors]
— see also ↑high fidelity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.