integrity

integrity
    n 1: an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with
         nothing wanting; "the integrity of the nervous system is
         required for normal development"; "he took measures to
         insure the territorial unity of Croatia" [syn: {integrity},
         {unity}, {wholeness}]
    2: moral soundness; "he expects to find in us the common honesty
       and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his
       scrupulous professional integrity"
    

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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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