Integrity \In*teg"ri*ty\, n. [L. integritas: cf. F.
int['e]grit['e]. See Integer, and cf. Entirety.]
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1. The state or quality of being entire or complete;
wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity
of an empire or territory. --Sir T. More.
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2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting
influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to
the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies,
trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
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The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the
sublimest thing in nature. --Buckminster.
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Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth. --Cowper.
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3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire
correspondence with an original condition; purity.
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Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
--Sir M. Hale.
Syn: Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
integrity
n 1: an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality [syn: unity,
wholeness]
2: moral soundness
WordNet (r) 2.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "integrity":
absoluteness, assured probity, blamelessness, character, cleanness,
coherence, collectivity, combination, completeness, complex,
comprehensiveness, decency, differentiation, differentness,
distinctiveness, egohood, elementarity, embodiment, entireness,
entirety, erectness, estimableness, exhaustiveness, fairness,
forthrightness, fullness, fundamentality, fusion, good character,
goodness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness,
homogeneity, honesty, honor, honorableness, human factor, identity,
immaculacy, inclusiveness, incorruptibility, incorruption,
individualism, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integer,
integrality, integration, inviolability, irreducibility,
irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, monism,
moral excellence, moral strength, morality, nobility, nominalism,
nonconformity, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, particularism,
particularity, perfection, personal equation, personal identity,
personality, personship, pervasiveness, plainness, plenitude,
principle, principles, probity, pureness, purity, rectitude,
reputability, respectability, righteousness, self-identity,
selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, severity, simpleness, simplicity,
singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity,
soul, soundness, stability, stainlessness, starkness,
straightforwardness, thoroughness, togetherness, totality,
trustworthiness, ubiquity, unadulteration, undividedness,
unification, uniformity, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness,
uniqueness, unity, universality, univocity, unmixedness,
unsophistication, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness,
veracity, virtue, virtuousness, whole, wholeness, worthiness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
unity, wholeness
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