Fealty vs. Fidelity

Fealtynoun

Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord

Fealtynoun

The oath by which this obligation was assumed.

Fealtynoun

Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

Fealtynoun

Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

Fealtynoun

the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)

Fealtynoun

a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord

Fealtynoun

formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord

Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas (faithfulness), is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.

Fidelitynoun

Faithfulness to one's duties.

Fidelitynoun

Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.

Fidelitynoun

Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.

Fidelitynoun

The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Fidelitynoun

Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.

Fidelitynoun

Adherence to the marriage contract.

Fidelitynoun

accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal

Fidelitynoun

the quality of being faithful

Fidelity

Fidelity is the quality of faithfulness or loyalty. Its original meaning regarded duty in a broader sense than the related concept of fealty.