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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 unfaithfulplay

  Familiarity information: INFIDELITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INFIDELITY (noun)


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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