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.
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Credibility
Credibility comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message. Credibility dates back to Aristotle theory of Rhetoric.
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Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code
A leader of great integrity.
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Credibility
The quality of being trusted and believed in
The government's loss of credibility
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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).
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Integrity
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
Replaced a lost book to restore the integrity of his collection.
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Credibility
A capacity for belief
A story that strained our credibility.
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Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
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Credibility
Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.
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Integrity
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
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Credibility
(legal) Believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
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Integrity
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
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Credibility
The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
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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.
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Credibility
The quality of being believable or trustworthy
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Integrity
(aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
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Integrity
Trustworthiness; keeping your word.
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Integrity
The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
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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.
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Integrity
Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
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Integrity
An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
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Integrity
Moral soundness
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