INTEGRITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does integrity mean?
• INTEGRITY (noun)
The noun INTEGRITY has 2 senses:
1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
2. moral soundness
Familiarity information: INTEGRITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INTEGRITY (noun)
Meaning:
An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
integrity; unity; wholeness
Context examples:
the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development / he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia
Hypernyms ("integrity" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Attribute:
broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)
unbroken (not broken; whole and intact; in one piece)
whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)
fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "integrity"):
completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)
incompleteness; rawness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)
Meaning:
Moral soundness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business / they admired his scrupulous professional integrity
Hypernyms ("integrity" is a kind of...):
honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "integrity"):
probity (complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles)
Holonyms ("integrity" is a part of...):
character; fiber; fibre (the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions)
