Integrity vs. Credibility — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Integrity and Credibility
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Integrity
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.
Credibility
Credibility comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message. Credibility dates back to Aristotle theory of Rhetoric.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code
A leader of great integrity.
Credibility
The quality of being trusted and believed in
The government's loss of credibility
Integrity
The state of being unimpaired; soundness
The building's integrity remained intact following the mild earthquake.
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Credibility
The quality, capability, or power to elicit belief
"The scandals posed a crisis of credibility for collegiate athletics" (Taylor Branch).
Integrity
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
Replaced a lost book to restore the integrity of his collection.
Credibility
A capacity for belief
A story that strained our credibility.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
Credibility
Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.
Integrity
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
Credibility
(legal) Believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
Integrity
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
Credibility
The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
Integrity
(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.
Credibility
The quality of being believable or trustworthy
Integrity
(aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
Integrity
Trustworthiness; keeping your word.
Integrity
The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
Integrity
Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; - used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature.
Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth.
Integrity
Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
Integrity
An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
Integrity
Moral soundness
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