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infidelity

(ɪnfɪdelɪti)
Word forms: plural infidelities
variable noun
Infidelity occurs when a person who is married or in a long-term relationship has sex with another person.
George ignored his partner's infidelities.
I divorced him for infidelity.
Synonyms: unfaithfulness, cheating [informal], adultery, betrayal More Synonyms of infidelity

infidelity in British English

(ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ties
1. 
lack of faith or constancy, esp sexual faithfulness
2. 
lack of religious faith; disbelief
3. 
an act or instance of disloyalty

infidelity in American English

(ˌɪnfəˈdɛləti)
noun
1. 
the fact or state of being an infidel
2. 
unfaithfulness or disloyalty to another; esp., sexual unfaithfulness of a husband or wife; adultery
3. Word forms: plural ˌinfiˈdelities
an unfaithful or disloyal act
Word origin
L infidelitas < infidelis: see infidel

Examples of 'infidelity' in a sentence
infidelity

Those who have suffered from it will tell you that a husband 's infidelity with another woman is hard enough to deal with.
The Sun (2016)
Rumours circled that he had learnt of his wife 's infidelity and had killed her.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So is the fact that your husband 's infidelity is out in the open.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
For ten years he had also lived with the humiliation of his wife 's open infidelity.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She has not found it easy to talk about her husband 's infidelity.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
One wife overlooks her husband 's infidelity until one of his mistresses dies in a car crash.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Two years ago, he suggested that he had told the lie to cover up a marital infidelity.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I keep thinking this is my way of getting back at my partner for his infidelity.
The Sun (2009)
He will quickly want to forget being required to wrestle with a duvet to express rage about his wife 's apparent infidelity.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
One involves alleged serial infidelity and financial wrongdoing by a TV personality.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The balancing act tires him; his wife 's infidelity and illnesses exhaust him.
Christianity Today (2000)
It was his one moment of infidelity to his wife, Aileen.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And, over time, it dulled the pain of his alleged infidelity and the need to dwell incessantly on why he had felt the need to stray.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
(noun) 
Definition
sexual unfaithfulness to one's husband, wife, or lover
I divorced him for infidelity.
Synonyms
unfaithfulness
cheating (informal)
adultery
She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.
betrayal
She felt that what she had done was a betrayal of Patrick.
duplicity
disloyalty
Charges of disloyalty had already been made against them.
bad faith
perfidy (literary)
He cited many examples to illustrate the perfidy of his adversaries.
falseness
faithlessness
false-heartedness

Additional synonyms

in the sense of adultery
Definition
sexual unfaithfulness of a husband or wife
She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.
Synonyms
unfaithfulness,
infidelity,
cheating (informal),
fornication,
playing the field (slang),
extramarital sex,
playing away from home (slang),
illicit sex,
unchastity,
extramarital relations,
extracurricular sex (informal),
extramarital congress,
having an affair or a fling
in the sense of betrayal
She felt that what she had done was a betrayal of Patrick.
Synonyms
disloyalty,
sell-out (informal),
deception,
treason,
treachery,
trickery,
duplicity,
double-cross (informal),
double-dealing,
breach of trust,
perfidy (literary),
unfaithfulness,
falseness,
inconstancy
in the sense of disloyalty
Charges of disloyalty had already been made against them.
Synonyms
treachery,
infidelity,
breach of trust,
double-dealing,
falsity,
perfidy (literary),
unfaithfulness,
falseness,
betrayal of trust,
inconstancy,
deceitfulness,
breaking of faith,
Punic faith

Nearby words of
infidelity

  • infest
  • infested
  • infidel
  • infidelity
  • infiltrate
  • infinite
  • infinitesimal

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