adultery

Summary

adultery ranks in the top 0.64% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,994 views/month, #496 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• adultery's main regulatory text is recorded as Thou shalt not commit adultery^[2].
• adultery is a type of extramarital sex^[3].
• adultery is a type of infidelity^[4].
• adultery is a type of sexual intercourse^[5].
• adultery is a type of grounds for divorce^[6].
• adultery is a type of sex crime^[7].
• adultery's Commons category is recorded as Adultery^[8].
• adultery's said to be the same as is recorded as affair^[9].
• adultery's said to be the same as is recorded as Fahisha^[10].
• adultery's said to be the same as is recorded as extramarital sex^[11].
• adultery is the opposite of faithfulness^[12].
• adultery's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Adultery^[13].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia^[14].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[15].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[16].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[17].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[19].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste^[22].
• adultery's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[23].
• adultery's partially coincident with is recorded as extramarital sex^[24].
• adultery's different from is recorded as extramarital sex^[25].
• adultery's different from is recorded as prostitution^[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include extramarital sex^[3], infidelity^[4], sexual intercourse^[5], grounds for divorce^[6], and sex crime^[7]. adultery is the opposite of faithfulness^[12].

Why It Matters

adultery ranks in the top 0.64% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,994 views/month, #496 of 77,819).^[1] adultery has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] adultery is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]