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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
  2. n. The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
  3. n. The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being integral; unimpaired extent, amount, or constitution; wholeness; completeness.
  2. n. Unimpaired condition; soundness of state; freedom from corruption or impurity.
  3. n. Unimpaired morality; soundness of moral principle and character; entire uprightness or fidelity.
  4. n. Probity, Uprightness, etc. See honesty.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
  2. n. The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
  3. n. The quality or condition of being complete; pure
  4. n. cryptography With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
  5. n. aviation The ability of a system to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
  2. n. moral soundness

Etymologies

  1. From Latin integritās ("soundness, integrity"), from integer. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English integrite, from Old French, from Latin integritās, soundness, from integer, whole, complete. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. honesty
  1. uprightness
  1. probity
  1. rectitude
  1. wholeness
  1. entireness
  1. purity

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. honesty
  2. purity
  1. loyalty
  2. independence
  1. prudence
  2. generosity
  1. stability
  2. firmness
  1. wisdom
  2. patriotism
  1. fairness
  2. morality
  1. probity

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. probity
  2. break
  3. collapse
  4. GIGO
  5. corruption
  6. irreproachableness
  7. falsehood
  8. falseness
  9. entireness
  10. dishonesty
  11. improbity
  12. incorruptness
  13. damaged
  14. heal
  15. holiness
  16. honest
  17. honesty
  18. honor
  1. careerism
  2. justice
  3. thermanæsthesia
  4. timeserving
  5. uncorruptness
  6. reintegrate
  7. single-heartedly
  8. straight and narrow
  9. parity bit
  10. dishonestly
  11. cynicism
  12. dedication
  13. deflower
  14. dishonorable
  15. microfilament
  16. mar
  17. larger than life
  18. during good behavior
  1. covalent bond
  2. condition
  3. crush
  4. curb
  5. dishonest
  6. integritive
  7. unprincipled
  8. personal loan
  9. split personality
  10. subversion
  11. corrupt
  12. credit
  13. dog
  14. truth
  15. reflection
  16. parity
  17. trust
  18. palladium
  1. crack
  2. dishonourable
  3. incorruption
  4. multiple personality
  5. careerist
  6. consumer loan
  7. corruptness
  8. dishonor
  9. dishonour
  10. mistrust
  11. nationality
  12. rectitude
  13. redintegrate
  14. refer
  15. reference
  16. rely
  17. right
  18. true-blue
  1. virtue
  2. commit
  3. confidence
  4. credible
  5. criticism
  6. fidelity
  7. innocence
  8. lapse
  9. prowess
  10. purity
  11. radical
  12. rotten
  13. Saturnian
  14. shaky
  15. sincerity
  16. single
  17. skeptic
  18. square
  1. Bushido
  2. mark
  3. unbroken
  4. uprightness

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  1. strength
  2. honesty
  1. reliability
  2. virtue
  1. positive
  2. trustworthiness
  1. strict moral
  2. trait
  1. truth
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  • uselessness You realize, of course, that my daffynition was never intended to open such a can of worms... Feb 27, 2007

  • sionnach I have to question the integrity of a definition which falsely ascribes to the integers the requirement that they be greater than zero. Morality has nothing to do with it; the facts are as seanahan has said; the natural numbers are the positive whole numbers (sometimes called the counting numbers). The integers correspond to all whole numbers, negative or positive, and zero, by definition. Whimsy is all well and good, but not applied to such basic mathematical ideas as the integers.

    (end of harrumphing diatribe)
    Added on edit; I'm a little confused though, because Merriam Webster doesn't have anything about positive numbers in the definition of integrity. For integer it has
    "any of the natural numbers, the negatives of these numbers, or zero".
    Feb 26, 2007

  • uselessness Not being a mathematical type, I will maintain that any number identified as negative cannot be a number of integrity. It's a morals thing. There's nothing "natural" about miscreants like that. Feb 26, 2007

  • seanahan Weird, because integer means any whole number, positive or negative or zero. Using natural implies any positive whole number. I question the validity of this MW definition. Feb 26, 2007

  • uselessness The virtue of being a positive whole number, or zero. Feb 26, 2007

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