'Infidelity' definitions:
Definition of 'infidelity'
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noun
Definition of 'Infidelity'
From: GCIDE
- Infidelity \In`fi*del"i*ty\, n.; pl. Infidelities. [L. infidelitas: cf. F. infid['e]lit['e].] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of the principal causes of infidelity. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infidelity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Punic faith,
- recreancy,
- rejection,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- secularism,
- traitorousness,
- treachery,
- triangle,
- trothlessness,
- unbelief,
- unbelievingness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness