integrity

1. 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”

   Synonymsunitywholeness

   Broaderstate

   Narrowercompletenessincompleteness
2. 2.

   moral soundness

   “he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business”

   “they admired his scrupulous professional integrity”

   Broaderhonesty

   Narrowerprobity

   Part ofcharacter

Other forms of integrity

plural

integrities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about integrity

What does integrity mean?

integrity means "an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in integrity?

integrity has 4 syllables: in-teg-ri-ty. The stress falls on "teg". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/.

What is another word for integrity?

Close synonyms include unity, wholeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is integrity a common word?

integrity is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.