Noun

(uncountable) The action of the verb to belong .

I have a feeling of belonging in London.

A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.

(countable) (almost always used in the plural ) Something physical that is owned.

* Shakespeare

Thyself and thy belongings .

Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.

(colloquial, dated) family; relations; household

* Thackeray

Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons.

Noun

(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

* 1846 ,

If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.

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A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 137:

If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity out of them .

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`

(mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.

(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.