Definition of FIDELITY

fidelity

Plural: fidelities

Noun

  • Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief; loyalty.
  • accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
  • the quality of being faithful
  • Faithfulness to one's duties.
  • Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
  • Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  • The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Examples

  • Her FIDELITY to playing long words, even when short ones were better, sometimes cost her the game.
  • the fidelity of the civil servants

Origin / Etymology

15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (“faithful”), from fidēs (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.

Synonyms

faithfulness

Scrabble Score: 15

fidelity: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fidelity: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fidelity: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

fidelity: valid Words With Friends Word