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Wordnet 3.0 NOUN (2) 1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; - Example: "the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development" - Example: "he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia" [syn: integrity, unity, wholeness] 2. moral soundness; - Example: "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business" - Example: "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity" The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48: Integrity \In*teg"ri*ty\, n. [L. integritas: cf. F. int['e]grit['e]. See Integer, and cf. Entirety.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster] Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. [1913 Webster] Language continued long in its purity and integrity. --Sir M. Hale. Syn: Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity. [1913 Webster] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006): 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" Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0: 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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018): integrity 1. data integrity. 2. referential integrity.
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