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INFIDELITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does infidelity mean?
• INFIDELITY (noun)
The noun INFIDELITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being unfaithful
Familiarity information: INFIDELITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unfaithful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
infidelity; unfaithfulness
Hypernyms ("infidelity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infidelity"):
faithlessness; falseness; fickleness; inconstancy (unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous)
disloyalty (the quality of being disloyal)
Antonym:
fidelity (the quality of being faithful)
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