Converse vs Unity - What's the difference?
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(formal) To talk; to engage in conversation.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with .
* Thomson
* Sir Walter Scott
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
* John Locke
Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
* 1728 , (Edward Young), Love of Fame, the Universal Passion , Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 405:
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
The opposite or reverse.
(logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."''
equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs" .
(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
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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:
(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.
Converse is a related term of unity.
As a verb converse
is .As a proper noun unity is
.converse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(convers)- Companions / That do converse and waste the time together.
- We had conversed so often on that subject.
- To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.
- Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
- But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
- according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
Derived terms
* conversationNoun
(en noun)- Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day [...].
- In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse .
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(-)- a converse proposition
Noun
(en noun)equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs" .
- All trees are plants, but the converse , that all plants are trees, is not true.
Derived terms
* converselyAnagrams
* * English heteronyms ----unity
English
(wikipedia unity)Noun
- 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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- 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 .