infidelity
/ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.26 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Your friends tell you rumors about your girlfriend's infidelity or you remember being broken up around the time the baby was conceived."
- "It was disastrous that England's infidelity towards Frederick the Great — which no one, not even a German, condemned more strongly than did William Pitt — had to affect one of the most popular heroes of our national history."
- "The means used to this purpose are partly didactical, and partly protreptical; demonstrating the truth of the gospel, and then urging the professors of those truths to be stedfast^([sic]) in the faith, and to beware of infidelity."
- "The Churchman remarked that such incidents arose from the growing infidelity, while the Freethinker saw in them a reversion to superstition."
Etymology
From Middle English infidelite, from Middle French infidelité (modern French infidélité) and its etymon Latin īnfidēlitās. Equivalent to infidel + -ity.