infidelidade

Portuguese

Etymology

From in- +‎ fidelidade.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.fi.de.liˈda.d͡ʒi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.fi.de.liˈda.de/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.fi.dɨ.liˈda.dɨ/ [ĩ.fi.ðɨ.liˈða.ðɨ]

  • Hyphenation: in‧fi‧de‧li‧da‧de

Noun

infidelidade f (plural infidelidades)

  1. infidelity (lack of faithfulness in marriage or other moral obligation)
  2. quality of being unfaithful (imperfect or inaccurate)
    Há um certo nível de infidelidade em qualquer relato histórico.
    There is a certain degree of inaccuracy to any historical account.
  3. (by extension) a lapse of memory
    • 1977, Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela [The Hour of the Star]:
      Estava meio bêbada, não sabia o que pensava, parecia que lhe tinham dado um forte cascudo na cabeça de ralos cabelos, sentia-se tão desorientada como se lhe tivesse acontecido uma infidelidade.
      She was half-drunk, she didn’t know what to think, it was like someone’d hit her hard on her head of little hair, she felt as disoriented as if she’d lost her memory.

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