integrity

Noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.

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.

Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

honesty wholeness uprightness unity sincerity decency rectitude virtue probity honor purity entirety completeness goodness coherence
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Antonyms

bender saturnalia saki bluff satanism toot
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Hypernyms

state honesty honestness

Hyponyms

completeness incompleteness rawness probity

Related terms

integer integrated integral integrate integrous

Phrases with the word

degradation of personal integrity destruction of your personal integrity watertight integrity financial market integrity ethical integrity intellectual integrity

Examples

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. Dwight D. Eisenhower

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. Dag Hammarskjöld

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who makes an idol of his interest makes a martyr of his integrity. Italian Proverb

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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