Loyal vs. Fidelity — What's the Difference?

Steadfast in allegiance to one's homeland, government, or sovereign.

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

Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.

Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.

Of, relating to, or marked by loyalty

The condition or behavior of engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.

Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.

Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy

Firm in allegiance to a person or institution.

The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.

Faithful to a person or cause.

Faithfulness to one's duties.

Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.

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

True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.

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

Steadfast in allegiance or duty;

The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Inspired by love for your country

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

Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause;

Adherence to the marriage contract.

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

The quality of being faithful