Lonely vs Unity - What's the difference?
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Unhappy because of feelings of loneliness.
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, title= unfrequented by people; desolate.
without companions; solitary.
(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.
As an adjective lonely
is unhappy because of feelings of loneliness.As a noun unity is
oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.As a proper noun Unity is
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English
Adjective
(er)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (dejected) lonesome * (unfrequented by people) desolate, desert, empty, unpeopled, unpopulated * (without companions) solitary, alone, unaccompaniedunity
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 .