Word Meanings - FIDELITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best

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Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty. A. Hamilton. Adherence to the marriage contract. Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker. Syn. -- Faithfulness; honesty; integrity; faith; loyalty; fealty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FIDELITY)

• Accuracy
• Exactness
• correctness
• strictness
• precision
• exactitude
• nicety
• fidelity
• Adherence
• Adhesion
• attachment
• devotion
• cleaving to
• constancy
• endearment
• Loyalty
• Fidelity
• fealty
• allegiance
• faithfulness

Related words: (words related to FIDELITY)

• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• CORRECTNESS
  The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• ACCURACY
  The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• CLEAVAGE
  The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment
• LOYALTY
  The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love
• PRECISION
  The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. --
• ENDEARMENT
  The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. "The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.
• CLEAVERS
  A species of Galium , having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
• ALLEGIANCE
  The meaning was influenced by L. ligare to bind, and even by lex, 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state. 2. Devotion; loyalty;
• EXACTITUDE
  The quality of being exact; exactness.
• CLEAVABLE
  Capable of cleaving or being divided.
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• ADHESION
  The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence;
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• INADHESION
  Want of adhesion.
• INACCURACY
  1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• UNDEVOTION
  Absence or want of devotion.
• DISLOYALTY
  Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
• UNCONSTANCY
  Inconstancy. "The unconstancy of the foundation." Fuller.
• INCONSTANCY
  The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.