LOYALTY
Dictionary entry overview: What does loyalty mean?
• LOYALTY (noun)
The noun LOYALTY has 3 senses:
1. the quality of being loyal
2. feelings of allegiance
3. the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
Familiarity information: LOYALTY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• LOYALTY (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being loyal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
loyalty; trueness
Hypernyms ("loyalty" is a kind of...):
faithfulness; fidelity (the quality of being faithful)
Attribute:
loyal (steadfast in allegiance or duty)
disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loyalty"):
staunchness; steadfastness (loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty)
allegiance; fealty (the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign))
nationalism; patriotism (love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it)
regionalism (loyalty to the interests of a particular region)
Antonym:
disloyalty (the quality of being disloyal)
Meaning:
Feelings of allegiance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("loyalty" is a kind of...):
love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)
Meaning:
The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
allegiance; commitment; loyalty; dedication
Context examples:
his long commitment to public service / they felt no loyalty to a losing team
Hypernyms ("loyalty" is a kind of...):
cooperation (joint operation or action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loyalty"):
communalism (loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole)
consecration (a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal))
devotion (commitment to some purpose)
enlistment (the act of enlisting (as in a military service))
faith (loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person)
