Integrity vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
integrity | fidelity |
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
(cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
(aviation) The ability of a system to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
Faithfulness to one's duties.
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage).
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
* 2003 , Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003 , page 58:
As nouns the difference between fidelity and integrity
is that fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties while integrity is steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.integrity
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(wikipedia integrity)Noun
Derived terms
* integrous (very rare)Synonyms
(Synonyms) * honesty * uprightness * rectitude * unity * wholeness * purity * goodness * probity * sincerity * virtue * decencyfidelity
English
Noun
- the fidelity of the civil servants
- By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.