integrity.

1. Adherence to honest or principled conduct rather than deception or improper compromise.

2. The wholeness, soundness or intact condition of a structure or whole.

3. The accuracy, completeness and consistency of information within the relevant system.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• professional integrity
• integrity of conduct

On the page

Professional integrity required the researcher to disclose the inconvenient result.

The integrity of her conduct did not mean that every interpretation she made was correct.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: responsibility analysis, evidence qualification, ethical distinction, institutional judgment. Disciplines: academic writing, ethics, legal-administrative reasoning. Commonness: moderately common.