daddy1gringo wrote:Maybe integral? At least that IS a word, though I've never heard it used that way.
Hmm. According to dictionary.com, you're right, that isn't one of it's normal contexts, but I rather like it. I can even make a roundabout case for it: they come from the same roots, with meanings "completeness" and "soundness". The implication being that a person of integrity is a complete and sound set of morals. Unhappily, I can also make a case against: even if my case above holds, the word "integral" isn't usually used in quite that way in a structural sense either. An object may have structural integrity, and the parts that give it that integrity are integral to it, yet there still is no adjective for "the act of having structural integrity".
bah! I have a love-hate relationship with the English language...it is so flexible, yet sometimes lacks some simple words that logically should be there. On the other hand, it provides fodder for talks like this!
...so....I vote that we petition Webster or whoever & make up a word! Is anyone with me?
