Infidelity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infidelity \In`fi*del"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Infidelities}. [L.
     infidelitas: cf. F. infid['e]lit['e].]
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     1. Lack of faith or belief in some religious system;
        especially, a lack of faith in, or disbelief of, the
        inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of


        Christianity.
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              There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of
              the principal causes of infidelity.   --V. Knox.
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     2. Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation
        of the marriage covenant by adultery.
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     3. Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral
        obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a
        servant. "The infidelity of friends." --Sir W. Temple.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infidelity
       n : the quality of being unfaithful [syn: {unfaithfulness}]
           [ant: {fidelity}, {fidelity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "infidelity":
     Punic faith, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, agnosticism,
     amor, amour, apostasy, atheism, bad faith, barratry,
     breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, cheating,
     cuckoldry, denial, dereliction, disaffection, disbelief, discredit,
     disloyalty, entanglement, eternal triangle, faithlessness,
     falseness, falsity, fickleness, flirtation, forbidden love,
     gentilism, hanky-panky, heresy, illicit love, inability to believe,
     inconstancy, incredulity, intrigue, liaison, love affair,
     mala fides, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism,
     perfidy, recreancy, rejection, romance, romantic tie, secularism,
     traitorousness, treachery, triangle, trothlessness, unbelief,
     unbelievingness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty,
     unsteadfastness, untrueness