Full and faithful functors

That is, two objects X and X′ may map to the same object in D (which is why the range of a full and faithful functor is not necessarily isomorphic to C), and two morphisms f : X → Y and f′ : X′ → Y′ (with different domains/codomains) may map to the same morphism in D. Likewise, a full functor need not be surjective on objects or morphisms.

There may be objects in D not of the form FX for some X in C. Morphisms between such objects clearly cannot come from morphisms in C. A full and faithful functor is necessarily injective on objects up to isomorphism.

In an (∞, 1)-category, the maps between any two objects are given by a space only up to homotopy.

Since the notion of injection and surjection are not homotopy invariant notions (consider an interval embedding into the real numbers vs. an interval mapping to a point), we do not have the notion of a functor being "full" or "faithful."

However, we can define a functor of quasi-categories to be fully faithful if for every X and Y in C, the map