fidelity

Other forms of fidelity

plural

fidelities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fidelity

What does fidelity mean?

fidelity means "accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fidelity?

fidelity has 4 syllables: fi-del-i-ty. The stress falls on "del". In IPA it is /fəˈdɛləti/.

What is another word for fidelity?

Close synonyms include faithfulness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fidelity?

The recorded antonyms are infidelity.

Is fidelity a common word?

fidelity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.