INTEGRITY

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

integrity; unity; wholeness

Context example:

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Moral soundness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

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 determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions)

 Context examples 

The soil loses its structural integrity and begins to flow like a liquid.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

This nucleoside analog also disrupts mitochondrial function and membrane integrity, resulting in the release of pre-apoptotic factors, including cytochrome C and apoptotic-inducing factors, which activate apoptosis.

(Clofarabine, NCI Thesaurus)

“One thing that stood out immediately was synaptic integrity,” Praticò said.

(Study: Olive Oil Protects Brain From Alzheimer’s, VOA News)

This protein may be involved in nuclear membrane integrity.

(Codanin-1, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes collagen alpha-2 (I) chain protein, plays a role in the structural integrity of tendons, ligaments and bones.

(COL1A2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes DNA mismatch repair protein Mlh3, plays a role in DNA mismatch repair and genomic integrity maintenance.

(MLH3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in both the mediation of cell adhesion and the structural integrity of the basement membrane.

(Basement Membrane-Specific Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Core Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A process that encompasses the viability of a cell and its ability to subsist and maintain the integrity of cellular processes.

(Cell Survival, NCI Thesaurus)

These proteins are involved in the structural integrity of high-density lipoprotein particles.

(Apolipoprotein A, NCI Thesaurus)

Damage to a blood vessel resulting from a full thickness disruption in the integrity of the vessel wall.

(Blood Vessel Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)