Definition of fidelity in English:

fidelity

noun fɪˈdɛlɪtifəˈdɛlədi

mass noun

1Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
忠诚，忠实
his fidelity to liberal ideals
Example sentencesExamples
- To demonstrate fidelity to the deceased family member, a band of wind and percussion instruments is often present to perform both traditional and popular music.
- Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth - far from it.
- First, there is an implied term that the employee will serve the employer with loyalty and fidelity.
- Females demonstrate strong fidelity to the sites where they hatched, and they lead their mates back to those sites in the spring.
- I suppose my own lingering belief in some fidelity to the subject at hand as a mandate for teachers has always caused me to worry about overpersonalizing what I teach.
- The various obligations of a fiduciary merely reflect different aspects of his core duties of loyalty and fidelity.
- The children may also feel that they themselves are demonstrating a lack of fidelity by supporting their remarrying parent.
- The George circle was close and intimate and his disciples vowed to perpetuate his memory by remaining faithful to his precepts of service, heroic values and fidelity to the ideal of the true Germany.
- Instead, any impulse for transparent dialogue is ritually displaced into domestic disputes about matters such as fidelity to the nation state during times of conflict.
- Three types of territoriality were recognized according to the defense rate and degree of fidelity to the foraging site.
- Both male and female adult polar bears captured in Manitoba and Ontario showed a high degree of fidelity over time to locations on shore.
- The Democrat Party, which had hitherto taken the notion of a ‘loyal opposition’ to extremes of patriotic fidelity, has also now broken ranks with a battered White House.
- His political enemies cannot fault his character; the worst they can say is that his integrity and notorious fidelity are boring.
- Mary, a devout Catholic, did little to impose her faith on Scotland, but had little support for this fidelity.
- It survived and prospered thanks to the generosity and fidelity of thousands of volunteers who knew that if the young people were strong Ireland would be strong.
- A covenant is more binding because it is not predicated on interest, but instead on loyalty, fidelity and holding together.
- Muldoon's fidelity to his beliefs was considerable, but came to be compromised.
- Respect and kindness, fidelity and sincerity, are no doubt the essential points which Judo students should particularly observe.
- Of the four, he is the most faithful to the values they share, but it's his very loyalty and fidelity that ultimately doom him.
- Adult females may simply show a higher degree of fidelity to specific areas than males when they come ashore to fast during the open water season.
Synonyms
loyalty, allegiance, obedience, constancy, fealty, homage
staunchness, fastness
1. 1.1 Sexual faithfulness to a spouse or partner.
  （对配偶或伴侣的）忠贞
  Example sentencesExamples
  The study also revealed that only 7 couples had actually maintained sexual fidelity and none of the seven had been together more than 5 years.
  Children whose parents are split asunder by adultery have their assumptions about trust, fidelity and commitment greatly damaged.
  Signals of fidelity and sexual restraint will be of value in a long-term partner, as this will help to increase a male's confidence of paternity in invested offspring.
  In fact, the history of AIDS in Uganda supports the Church's belief that abstinence and fidelity within marriage are actually the best ways to fight AIDS.
  However, partner choice and partner fidelity can act independently of each other, and therefore the two mechanisms need to be distinguished.
  When was this promise of obedience and sexual fidelity made?
  One area in which men and women differ is the importance of their partner's sexual fidelity.
  Marriage is still glamorous and still thought to include, as an aspiration, lifelong sexual fidelity.
  She loved him, even though he was incapable of loyalty and fidelity and yet what choice did she have but to love him?
  Sexual fidelity and honoring one's word (whether this involves a vow of marriage or a commitment to celibacy) go to the heart of who we are.
  Of course, sexual intimacy and fidelity between the sexes can be frustrating and exhausting, and particularly in a society which is increasingly predicated on other values.
  Is sexual fidelity simply an elaborate social contract to keep the peace?
  The aspect of marriage that strikes me as most relevant to homosexual couples (especially men) is the promise of sexual fidelity.
  Relationship experiences included status, selectiveness with partners, importance of steady partners, fidelity, and communication.
  Sexual fidelity, marriage, contraception, the Bible, all good.
  The problem I have with the presumption - as distinct from the conscious, informed choice - of sexual fidelity is that I think it closes off one way of learning.
  People's attitudes to sexual fidelity vary widely.
  Young women were expected to show sexual fidelity to their dating partner, but males were not.
  With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony.
  Generally, a husband and wife owe one another duties of mutual respect, fidelity and support.
  Synonyms
  faithfulness, loyalty, constancy
  devotedness, devotion, commitment, adherence
  true-heartedness, trustworthiness, trustiness, honesty, dependability, reliability
  monogamy
  archaic troth
2The degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced.
确切，精确；保真度，逼真度
the 1949 recording provides reasonable fidelity
1949年的录音保真度还不错。
Example sentencesExamples
- The optical quality of the medium makes this fidelity possible by minimizing distortion.
- There's not a lot to report about this mix - it has little in the way of fidelity or dynamic range.
- Dynamic range and fidelity are only slightly present with most all of the soundstage filtering through the front and center speakers only.
- It is a method for maximizing fidelity and dynamic range for a region of interest within a digitized medical image display.
- Dynamic range and fidelity are limited by the source elements, but the sound does what is expected of it.
- Because the genetic complement of the resultant daughter cells must be the same as the parental cell, DNA replication must possess a very high degree of fidelity.
- This provides a measure of the potential fidelity of paleoecological reconstructions based on small samples of avian remains.
- As technology improves, these documents will continually approach actual performance fidelity.
- When you have a repertoire of moves, you have fidelity in copying.
- For all that we now quest for absolute fidelity in recordings, I like the comforting scratch of an old record.
- While he demonstrates admirable aural fidelity to the concept, ideally a more musically compelling evocation would have made a stronger impression.
- The difference in audio fidelity between the iTunes options and WMA is quite striking to anyone with a decent pair of ears.
- It may even be possible for MP3 players to save energy by playing tunes at a slightly lower fidelity without a noticeable change in audio quality.
- The juxtaposition demonstrates the startling fidelity with which the director recreated his vision on screen.
- The sound has apparently been cleaned up substantially and given the limited degree of fidelity, does a fine job conveying both the dialogue and the rather hypnotic background music.
- It would be unreasonable to expect a soundcard costing a few hundred dollars to approach the audio fidelity of a home system costing several times that amount.
- It's been accused of having marginal audio fidelity, easily scratched, too expensive and too easy to copy.
- Audio is Dolby Digital two-channel mono, with reasonable fidelity and a high degree of clarity.
- Actually, this is a pretty decent mix sporting dynamic range and medium fidelity.
- The result is maximum fidelity: a picture whose clarity, brilliance and color must be seen to be believed.
Synonyms
accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, correctness, scrupulousness
strictness, closeness, faithfulness, correspondence, literalness, conformity
realism, verisimilitude, veracity, authenticity, naturalism

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French fidelite or Latin fidelitas, from fidelis 'faithful', from fides 'faith'. Compare with fealty.

faith from Middle English:
Both faith and fidelity (Late Middle English) come from the Latin word fides. Fido, a traditional name for a dog, is also related—it represents the Latin for ‘I trust’. Other words from the same source include confident (late 16th century), confide (Late Middle English), and diffident (Late Middle English) which originally meant ‘lacking in trust’. Fiancée, the French for ‘promised’, which goes back to fides is related. See also infidel

Definition of fidelity in US English:

fidelity

nounfəˈdɛlədifəˈdelədē

1Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
忠诚，忠实
he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice
他寻求的只是对正义的绝对忠诚。
Example sentencesExamples
- Females demonstrate strong fidelity to the sites where they hatched, and they lead their mates back to those sites in the spring.
- A covenant is more binding because it is not predicated on interest, but instead on loyalty, fidelity and holding together.
- First, there is an implied term that the employee will serve the employer with loyalty and fidelity.
- Three types of territoriality were recognized according to the defense rate and degree of fidelity to the foraging site.
- Mary, a devout Catholic, did little to impose her faith on Scotland, but had little support for this fidelity.
- Adult females may simply show a higher degree of fidelity to specific areas than males when they come ashore to fast during the open water season.
- The Democrat Party, which had hitherto taken the notion of a ‘loyal opposition’ to extremes of patriotic fidelity, has also now broken ranks with a battered White House.
- Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth - far from it.
- His political enemies cannot fault his character; the worst they can say is that his integrity and notorious fidelity are boring.
- Both male and female adult polar bears captured in Manitoba and Ontario showed a high degree of fidelity over time to locations on shore.
- The George circle was close and intimate and his disciples vowed to perpetuate his memory by remaining faithful to his precepts of service, heroic values and fidelity to the ideal of the true Germany.
- Of the four, he is the most faithful to the values they share, but it's his very loyalty and fidelity that ultimately doom him.
- To demonstrate fidelity to the deceased family member, a band of wind and percussion instruments is often present to perform both traditional and popular music.
- I suppose my own lingering belief in some fidelity to the subject at hand as a mandate for teachers has always caused me to worry about overpersonalizing what I teach.
- Muldoon's fidelity to his beliefs was considerable, but came to be compromised.
- Instead, any impulse for transparent dialogue is ritually displaced into domestic disputes about matters such as fidelity to the nation state during times of conflict.
- It survived and prospered thanks to the generosity and fidelity of thousands of volunteers who knew that if the young people were strong Ireland would be strong.
- Respect and kindness, fidelity and sincerity, are no doubt the essential points which Judo students should particularly observe.
- The various obligations of a fiduciary merely reflect different aspects of his core duties of loyalty and fidelity.
- The children may also feel that they themselves are demonstrating a lack of fidelity by supporting their remarrying parent.
Synonyms
loyalty, allegiance, obedience, constancy, fealty, homage
1. 1.1 Sexual faithfulness to a spouse or partner.
  （对配偶或伴侣的）忠贞
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, partner choice and partner fidelity can act independently of each other, and therefore the two mechanisms need to be distinguished.
  The aspect of marriage that strikes me as most relevant to homosexual couples (especially men) is the promise of sexual fidelity.
  Generally, a husband and wife owe one another duties of mutual respect, fidelity and support.
  Marriage is still glamorous and still thought to include, as an aspiration, lifelong sexual fidelity.
  The problem I have with the presumption - as distinct from the conscious, informed choice - of sexual fidelity is that I think it closes off one way of learning.
  People's attitudes to sexual fidelity vary widely.
  Sexual fidelity, marriage, contraception, the Bible, all good.
  Children whose parents are split asunder by adultery have their assumptions about trust, fidelity and commitment greatly damaged.
  When was this promise of obedience and sexual fidelity made?
  With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony.
  Relationship experiences included status, selectiveness with partners, importance of steady partners, fidelity, and communication.
  Is sexual fidelity simply an elaborate social contract to keep the peace?
  Signals of fidelity and sexual restraint will be of value in a long-term partner, as this will help to increase a male's confidence of paternity in invested offspring.
  One area in which men and women differ is the importance of their partner's sexual fidelity.
  Of course, sexual intimacy and fidelity between the sexes can be frustrating and exhausting, and particularly in a society which is increasingly predicated on other values.
  In fact, the history of AIDS in Uganda supports the Church's belief that abstinence and fidelity within marriage are actually the best ways to fight AIDS.
  Young women were expected to show sexual fidelity to their dating partner, but males were not.
  Sexual fidelity and honoring one's word (whether this involves a vow of marriage or a commitment to celibacy) go to the heart of who we are.
  The study also revealed that only 7 couples had actually maintained sexual fidelity and none of the seven had been together more than 5 years.
  She loved him, even though he was incapable of loyalty and fidelity and yet what choice did she have but to love him?
  Synonyms
  faithfulness, loyalty, constancy
2. 1.2 The degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced.
  确切，精确；保真度，逼真度
  the 1949 recording provides reasonable fidelity
  1949年的录音保真度还不错。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For all that we now quest for absolute fidelity in recordings, I like the comforting scratch of an old record.
  The difference in audio fidelity between the iTunes options and WMA is quite striking to anyone with a decent pair of ears.
  There's not a lot to report about this mix - it has little in the way of fidelity or dynamic range.
  Audio is Dolby Digital two-channel mono, with reasonable fidelity and a high degree of clarity.
  It would be unreasonable to expect a soundcard costing a few hundred dollars to approach the audio fidelity of a home system costing several times that amount.
  It is a method for maximizing fidelity and dynamic range for a region of interest within a digitized medical image display.
  The sound has apparently been cleaned up substantially and given the limited degree of fidelity, does a fine job conveying both the dialogue and the rather hypnotic background music.
  While he demonstrates admirable aural fidelity to the concept, ideally a more musically compelling evocation would have made a stronger impression.
  It may even be possible for MP3 players to save energy by playing tunes at a slightly lower fidelity without a noticeable change in audio quality.
  Dynamic range and fidelity are limited by the source elements, but the sound does what is expected of it.
  The juxtaposition demonstrates the startling fidelity with which the director recreated his vision on screen.
  This provides a measure of the potential fidelity of paleoecological reconstructions based on small samples of avian remains.
  Dynamic range and fidelity are only slightly present with most all of the soundstage filtering through the front and center speakers only.
  As technology improves, these documents will continually approach actual performance fidelity.
  The optical quality of the medium makes this fidelity possible by minimizing distortion.
  Because the genetic complement of the resultant daughter cells must be the same as the parental cell, DNA replication must possess a very high degree of fidelity.
  When you have a repertoire of moves, you have fidelity in copying.
  Actually, this is a pretty decent mix sporting dynamic range and medium fidelity.
  The result is maximum fidelity: a picture whose clarity, brilliance and color must be seen to be believed.
  It's been accused of having marginal audio fidelity, easily scratched, too expensive and too easy to copy.
  Synonyms
  accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, correctness, scrupulousness

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French fidelite or Latin fidelitas, from fidelis ‘faithful’, from fides ‘faith’. Compare with fealty.

词汇	fidelity
释义	Definition of fidelity in English: fidelity noun fɪˈdɛlɪtifəˈdɛlədi mass noun 1Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support. 忠诚，忠实 his fidelity to liberal ideals Example sentencesExamples To demonstrate fidelity to the deceased family member, a band of wind and percussion instruments is often present to perform both traditional and popular music. Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth - far from it. First, there is an implied term that the employee will serve the employer with loyalty and fidelity. Females demonstrate strong fidelity to the sites where they hatched, and they lead their mates back to those sites in the spring. I suppose my own lingering belief in some fidelity to the subject at hand as a mandate for teachers has always caused me to worry about overpersonalizing what I teach. The various obligations of a fiduciary merely reflect different aspects of his core duties of loyalty and fidelity. The children may also feel that they themselves are demonstrating a lack of fidelity by supporting their remarrying parent. The George circle was close and intimate and his disciples vowed to perpetuate his memory by remaining faithful to his precepts of service, heroic values and fidelity to the ideal of the true Germany. Instead, any impulse for transparent dialogue is ritually displaced into domestic disputes about matters such as fidelity to the nation state during times of conflict. Three types of territoriality were recognized according to the defense rate and degree of fidelity to the foraging site. Both male and female adult polar bears captured in Manitoba and Ontario showed a high degree of fidelity over time to locations on shore. The Democrat Party, which had hitherto taken the notion of a ‘loyal opposition’ to extremes of patriotic fidelity, has also now broken ranks with a battered White House. His political enemies cannot fault his character; the worst they can say is that his integrity and notorious fidelity are boring. Mary, a devout Catholic, did little to impose her faith on Scotland, but had little support for this fidelity. It survived and prospered thanks to the generosity and fidelity of thousands of volunteers who knew that if the young people were strong Ireland would be strong. A covenant is more binding because it is not predicated on interest, but instead on loyalty, fidelity and holding together. Muldoon's fidelity to his beliefs was considerable, but came to be compromised. Respect and kindness, fidelity and sincerity, are no doubt the essential points which Judo students should particularly observe. Of the four, he is the most faithful to the values they share, but it's his very loyalty and fidelity that ultimately doom him. Adult females may simply show a higher degree of fidelity to specific areas than males when they come ashore to fast during the open water season. Synonyms loyalty, allegiance, obedience, constancy, fealty, homage staunchness, fastness 1.1 Sexual faithfulness to a spouse or partner. （对配偶或伴侣的）忠贞 Example sentencesExamples The study also revealed that only 7 couples had actually maintained sexual fidelity and none of the seven had been together more than 5 years. Children whose parents are split asunder by adultery have their assumptions about trust, fidelity and commitment greatly damaged. Signals of fidelity and sexual restraint will be of value in a long-term partner, as this will help to increase a male's confidence of paternity in invested offspring. In fact, the history of AIDS in Uganda supports the Church's belief that abstinence and fidelity within marriage are actually the best ways to fight AIDS. However, partner choice and partner fidelity can act independently of each other, and therefore the two mechanisms need to be distinguished. When was this promise of obedience and sexual fidelity made? One area in which men and women differ is the importance of their partner's sexual fidelity. Marriage is still glamorous and still thought to include, as an aspiration, lifelong sexual fidelity. She loved him, even though he was incapable of loyalty and fidelity and yet what choice did she have but to love him? Sexual fidelity and honoring one's word (whether this involves a vow of marriage or a commitment to celibacy) go to the heart of who we are. Of course, sexual intimacy and fidelity between the sexes can be frustrating and exhausting, and particularly in a society which is increasingly predicated on other values. Is sexual fidelity simply an elaborate social contract to keep the peace? The aspect of marriage that strikes me as most relevant to homosexual couples (especially men) is the promise of sexual fidelity. Relationship experiences included status, selectiveness with partners, importance of steady partners, fidelity, and communication. Sexual fidelity, marriage, contraception, the Bible, all good. The problem I have with the presumption - as distinct from the conscious, informed choice - of sexual fidelity is that I think it closes off one way of learning. People's attitudes to sexual fidelity vary widely. Young women were expected to show sexual fidelity to their dating partner, but males were not. With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony. Generally, a husband and wife owe one another duties of mutual respect, fidelity and support. Synonyms faithfulness, loyalty, constancy devotedness, devotion, commitment, adherence true-heartedness, trustworthiness, trustiness, honesty, dependability, reliability monogamy archaic troth 2The degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced. 确切，精确；保真度，逼真度 the 1949 recording provides reasonable fidelity 1949年的录音保真度还不错。 Example sentencesExamples The optical quality of the medium makes this fidelity possible by minimizing distortion. There's not a lot to report about this mix - it has little in the way of fidelity or dynamic range. Dynamic range and fidelity are only slightly present with most all of the soundstage filtering through the front and center speakers only. It is a method for maximizing fidelity and dynamic range for a region of interest within a digitized medical image display. Dynamic range and fidelity are limited by the source elements, but the sound does what is expected of it. Because the genetic complement of the resultant daughter cells must be the same as the parental cell, DNA replication must possess a very high degree of fidelity. This provides a measure of the potential fidelity of paleoecological reconstructions based on small samples of avian remains. As technology improves, these documents will continually approach actual performance fidelity. When you have a repertoire of moves, you have fidelity in copying. For all that we now quest for absolute fidelity in recordings, I like the comforting scratch of an old record. While he demonstrates admirable aural fidelity to the concept, ideally a more musically compelling evocation would have made a stronger impression. The difference in audio fidelity between the iTunes options and WMA is quite striking to anyone with a decent pair of ears. It may even be possible for MP3 players to save energy by playing tunes at a slightly lower fidelity without a noticeable change in audio quality. The juxtaposition demonstrates the startling fidelity with which the director recreated his vision on screen. The sound has apparently been cleaned up substantially and given the limited degree of fidelity, does a fine job conveying both the dialogue and the rather hypnotic background music. It would be unreasonable to expect a soundcard costing a few hundred dollars to approach the audio fidelity of a home system costing several times that amount. It's been accused of having marginal audio fidelity, easily scratched, too expensive and too easy to copy. Audio is Dolby Digital two-channel mono, with reasonable fidelity and a high degree of clarity. Actually, this is a pretty decent mix sporting dynamic range and medium fidelity. The result is maximum fidelity: a picture whose clarity, brilliance and color must be seen to be believed. Synonyms accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, correctness, scrupulousness strictness, closeness, faithfulness, correspondence, literalness, conformity realism, verisimilitude, veracity, authenticity, naturalism Origin Late Middle English: from Old French fidelite or Latin fidelitas, from fidelis 'faithful', from fides 'faith'. Compare with fealty. faith from Middle English: Both faith and fidelity (Late Middle English) come from the Latin word fides. Fido, a traditional name for a dog, is also related—it represents the Latin for ‘I trust’. Other words from the same source include confident (late 16th century), confide (Late Middle English), and diffident (Late Middle English) which originally meant ‘lacking in trust’. Fiancée, the French for ‘promised’, which goes back to fides is related. See also infidel Definition of fidelity in US English: fidelity nounfəˈdɛlədifəˈdelədē 1Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support. 忠诚，忠实 he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice 他寻求的只是对正义的绝对忠诚。 Example sentencesExamples Females demonstrate strong fidelity to the sites where they hatched, and they lead their mates back to those sites in the spring. A covenant is more binding because it is not predicated on interest, but instead on loyalty, fidelity and holding together. First, there is an implied term that the employee will serve the employer with loyalty and fidelity. Three types of territoriality were recognized according to the defense rate and degree of fidelity to the foraging site. Mary, a devout Catholic, did little to impose her faith on Scotland, but had little support for this fidelity. Adult females may simply show a higher degree of fidelity to specific areas than males when they come ashore to fast during the open water season. The Democrat Party, which had hitherto taken the notion of a ‘loyal opposition’ to extremes of patriotic fidelity, has also now broken ranks with a battered White House. Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth - far from it. His political enemies cannot fault his character; the worst they can say is that his integrity and notorious fidelity are boring. Both male and female adult polar bears captured in Manitoba and Ontario showed a high degree of fidelity over time to locations on shore. The George circle was close and intimate and his disciples vowed to perpetuate his memory by remaining faithful to his precepts of service, heroic values and fidelity to the ideal of the true Germany. Of the four, he is the most faithful to the values they share, but it's his very loyalty and fidelity that ultimately doom him. To demonstrate fidelity to the deceased family member, a band of wind and percussion instruments is often present to perform both traditional and popular music. I suppose my own lingering belief in some fidelity to the subject at hand as a mandate for teachers has always caused me to worry about overpersonalizing what I teach. Muldoon's fidelity to his beliefs was considerable, but came to be compromised. Instead, any impulse for transparent dialogue is ritually displaced into domestic disputes about matters such as fidelity to the nation state during times of conflict. It survived and prospered thanks to the generosity and fidelity of thousands of volunteers who knew that if the young people were strong Ireland would be strong. Respect and kindness, fidelity and sincerity, are no doubt the essential points which Judo students should particularly observe. The various obligations of a fiduciary merely reflect different aspects of his core duties of loyalty and fidelity. The children may also feel that they themselves are demonstrating a lack of fidelity by supporting their remarrying parent. Synonyms loyalty, allegiance, obedience, constancy, fealty, homage 1.1 Sexual faithfulness to a spouse or partner. （对配偶或伴侣的）忠贞 Example sentencesExamples However, partner choice and partner fidelity can act independently of each other, and therefore the two mechanisms need to be distinguished. The aspect of marriage that strikes me as most relevant to homosexual couples (especially men) is the promise of sexual fidelity. Generally, a husband and wife owe one another duties of mutual respect, fidelity and support. Marriage is still glamorous and still thought to include, as an aspiration, lifelong sexual fidelity. The problem I have with the presumption - as distinct from the conscious, informed choice - of sexual fidelity is that I think it closes off one way of learning. People's attitudes to sexual fidelity vary widely. Sexual fidelity, marriage, contraception, the Bible, all good. Children whose parents are split asunder by adultery have their assumptions about trust, fidelity and commitment greatly damaged. When was this promise of obedience and sexual fidelity made? With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony. Relationship experiences included status, selectiveness with partners, importance of steady partners, fidelity, and communication. Is sexual fidelity simply an elaborate social contract to keep the peace? Signals of fidelity and sexual restraint will be of value in a long-term partner, as this will help to increase a male's confidence of paternity in invested offspring. One area in which men and women differ is the importance of their partner's sexual fidelity. Of course, sexual intimacy and fidelity between the sexes can be frustrating and exhausting, and particularly in a society which is increasingly predicated on other values. In fact, the history of AIDS in Uganda supports the Church's belief that abstinence and fidelity within marriage are actually the best ways to fight AIDS. Young women were expected to show sexual fidelity to their dating partner, but males were not. Sexual fidelity and honoring one's word (whether this involves a vow of marriage or a commitment to celibacy) go to the heart of who we are. The study also revealed that only 7 couples had actually maintained sexual fidelity and none of the seven had been together more than 5 years. She loved him, even though he was incapable of loyalty and fidelity and yet what choice did she have but to love him? Synonyms faithfulness, loyalty, constancy 1.2 The degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced. 确切，精确；保真度，逼真度 the 1949 recording provides reasonable fidelity 1949年的录音保真度还不错。 Example sentencesExamples For all that we now quest for absolute fidelity in recordings, I like the comforting scratch of an old record. The difference in audio fidelity between the iTunes options and WMA is quite striking to anyone with a decent pair of ears. There's not a lot to report about this mix - it has little in the way of fidelity or dynamic range. Audio is Dolby Digital two-channel mono, with reasonable fidelity and a high degree of clarity. It would be unreasonable to expect a soundcard costing a few hundred dollars to approach the audio fidelity of a home system costing several times that amount. It is a method for maximizing fidelity and dynamic range for a region of interest within a digitized medical image display. The sound has apparently been cleaned up substantially and given the limited degree of fidelity, does a fine job conveying both the dialogue and the rather hypnotic background music. While he demonstrates admirable aural fidelity to the concept, ideally a more musically compelling evocation would have made a stronger impression. It may even be possible for MP3 players to save energy by playing tunes at a slightly lower fidelity without a noticeable change in audio quality. Dynamic range and fidelity are limited by the source elements, but the sound does what is expected of it. The juxtaposition demonstrates the startling fidelity with which the director recreated his vision on screen. This provides a measure of the potential fidelity of paleoecological reconstructions based on small samples of avian remains. Dynamic range and fidelity are only slightly present with most all of the soundstage filtering through the front and center speakers only. As technology improves, these documents will continually approach actual performance fidelity. The optical quality of the medium makes this fidelity possible by minimizing distortion. Because the genetic complement of the resultant daughter cells must be the same as the parental cell, DNA replication must possess a very high degree of fidelity. When you have a repertoire of moves, you have fidelity in copying. Actually, this is a pretty decent mix sporting dynamic range and medium fidelity. The result is maximum fidelity: a picture whose clarity, brilliance and color must be seen to be believed. It's been accused of having marginal audio fidelity, easily scratched, too expensive and too easy to copy. Synonyms accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, correctness, scrupulousness Origin Late Middle English: from Old French fidelite or Latin fidelitas, from fidelis ‘faithful’, from fides ‘faith’. Compare with fealty.
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