Timely vs Integrity - What's the difference?
timely | integrity |
Done at the proper time.
Happening or appearing at the proper time.
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(obsolete) Keeping time or measure.
(archaic) In good time; early, quickly.
* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 587:
(obsolete) At the right time; seasonably.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
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.
As an adjective timely
is done at the proper time.As an adverb timely
is (archaic) in good time; early, quickly.As a noun integrity is
steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.timely
English
Adjective
(er)- The timely dew of sleep.
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Synonyms
* (done at the proper time ): well-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): opportune, seasonableAntonyms
* (done at the proper time ): badly timed, ill-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): inopportune, unseasonableDerived terms
* mistimely * overtimely * timelily * timeliness * timely-parted * untimelyAdverb
(en adverb)- ‘If I had been born more timely , he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different.’
- And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted.