fidelity
fih-DEL-ih-teenounMeaning faithfulness and loyalty; also, accuracy
Memory hook FIDO-lity: loyal as a dog named FIDO. Every afternoon at three, Fido waits at the gate for Sami to come home from school, rain or shine. Fido’s fidelity never wavers.
The old dog’s fidelity was famous: he waited at the gate every afternoon for his boy.
In context The translation was praised for its fidelity: it kept not only every meaning of the original poem but even its rhythm and rhymes.
Similar loyalty, faithfulness, devotion, accuracy
Opposite disloyalty, betrayal, inaccuracy
From Latin fidelitas, from fidelis, “faithful,” from fides, faith.