loyalty

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Alternative forms

• (archaic) loialty

Etymology

Old French loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té

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Noun

loyalty (countable and uncountable; plural loyalties)

1. The state of being loyal; fidelity.
2. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.

Antonyms

• disloyalty

Translations

the state of being loyal; fidelity

• Asturian: llealtá (ast) f
• Catalan: lleialtat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忠誠心 (cmn), 忠诚心 (cmn) (zhōngchéngxīn)

• Danish: loyalitet (da) c
• Finnish: lojaalius (fi), uskollisuus (fi), luotettavuus (fi)
• French: loyauté (fr) f
• Galician: lealdade (gl) f
• German: Treue (de) f, Loyalität (de) f
• Hindi: निष्ठा (hi) (niṣṭhā)
• Hungarian: hűség (hu)
• Irish: dílseacht (ga) f

• Italian: lealtà (it) f
• Japanese: 忠誠心 (ja) (ちゅうせいしん, chūseishin)
• Norwegian: loyalitet (no) m
• Polish: lojalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: lealdade (pt) f
• Romanian: loialitate (ro) f
• Russian: верность (ru) (vérnost') f , лояльность (ru) (lojál'nost') f , преданность (ru) (prédannost') f 
• Scots: lealty
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlseachd (gd) f
• Spanish: lealtad (es) f
• Swedish: lojalitet (sv) c, trofasthet (sv) c

faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation

• Danish: loyalitet (da) c
• Finnish: lojaalius (fi), uskollisuus (fi)
• French: loyauté (fr) f
• Irish: dílseacht (ga) f
• Italian: lealtà (it) f
• Korean: 충성 (ko)

• Norwegian: loyalitet (no) m
• Russian: верность (ru) (vérnost') f , лояльность (ru) (lojál'nost') f 
• Scottish Gaelic: dìlseachd (gd) f
• Spanish: lealtad (es) m
• Swedish: lojalitet (sv) c, trofasthet (sv) c

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Translations

• German: Loyalität f

• Japanese: chugo (ja)

Derived terms

• loyalty card

See also

• allegiance, fealty, fidelity