infidelity

infidelity
    n 1: the quality of being unfaithful [syn: {infidelity},
         {unfaithfulness}] [ant: {faithfulness}, {fidelity}]
    

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