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Integrity vs Verity - What's the difference?

integrity | verity |

As a noun integrity

is steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.

As a proper noun verity is

derived from the latin for truth; one of the puritan virtue names.

integrity

Noun

  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * integrous (very rare)

    Synonyms

    (Synonyms) * honesty * uprightness * rectitude * unity * wholeness * purity * goodness * probity * sincerity * virtue * decency

    verity

    English

    Noun

    (verities)
  • (archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 2
  • [...] but in the verity of extolment
    I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
    of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
    him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
    trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
  • For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
  • A true statement; an established doctrine.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
  • Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.