Integrity

Integrity is the quality of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.^[1]^[2] In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or earnestness of one's actions. Integrity can stand in opposition to hypocrisy.^[3] It regards internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that people who hold apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter those values.

The word integrity evolved from the Latin adjective integer, meaning whole or complete.^[1] In this context, integrity is the inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Definition of integrity in English". Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
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- "Meaning of integrity in English". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
- Killinger, Barbara (2010). Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0773582804. Retrieved 2013-10-15. Integrity is a personal choice, an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to honour moral, ethical, spiritual, and artistic values and principles.
^ Lucaites, John Louis; Condit, Celeste Michelle; Caudill, Sally (1999). Contemporary rhetorical theory: a reader. Guilford Press. p. 92. ISBN 1572304014.
^ "Integrity". Ethics Unwrapped. Retrieved 2020-05-27.

[oxford-1] "Definition of integrity in English". Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2019.

[2] 
"Meaning of integrity in English". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
Killinger, Barbara (2010). Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0773582804. Retrieved 2013-10-15. Integrity is a personal choice, an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to honour moral, ethical, spiritual, and artistic values and principles.

[3] "Meaning of integrity in English". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved February 26, 2019.

[4] Killinger, Barbara (2010). Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0773582804. Retrieved 2013-10-15. Integrity is a personal choice, an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to honour moral, ethical, spiritual, and artistic values and principles.

[3] Lucaites, John Louis; Condit, Celeste Michelle; Caudill, Sally (1999). Contemporary rhetorical theory: a reader. Guilford Press. p. 92. ISBN 1572304014.

[4] "Integrity". Ethics Unwrapped. Retrieved 2020-05-27.

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