Fortitude vs. Fidelity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fortitude and Fidelity
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Definitions
Fortitude
Strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage.
Fidelity
Fidelity is the quality of faithfulness or loyalty. Its original meaning regarded duty in a broader sense than the related concept of fealty.
Fortitude
Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
Fidelity
Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
Fortitude
(archaic) Physical strength.
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Fidelity
The condition or behavior of engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.
Fortitude
Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
The fortitude of the place is best known to you.
Fidelity
Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy
The fidelity of the movie to the book.
Fortitude
That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
Extolling patience as the truest fortitude.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Fidelity
The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.
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Fortitude
Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
Fidelity
Faithfulness to one's duties.
The fidelity of the civil servants
Fidelity
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
Fidelity
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
Fidelity
The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
Fidelity
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger.
The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty.
Fidelity
Adherence to the marriage contract.
The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity.
Fidelity
Accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
Fidelity
The quality of being faithful
