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the gap between what you promised and what you actually did.
means Faithfulness to a person, cause, or duty — or, in sound and copying, how accurately something reproduces the original.
from From Latin fidelitas, "faithfulness," built on fides, "faith, trust" — the same root that gives us confide, fealty, and the dog-name Fido. It arrived in English through French in the 15th century. The audio sense (as in "hi-fi," high fidelity) is a 20th-century borrowing of the idea: a recording keeping faith with the real sound.
- audio roots
- Hi-fi means staying true to original sound
- latin origin
- From fides, the same root as faith
- dog naming
- Fido means faithful, a classic loyal-dog name
- data sense
- Copies are judged by fidelity to originals
- vow weight
- Most marriage vows hinge on this single word
for instance
fidelity investments — boston-based financial services company with $11.3 trillion in assets under administration as of 2024