Solidarity vs Cooperativity - What's the difference?
solidarity | cooperativity |
(countable) A bond of unity or agreement between individuals, united around a common goal or against a common enemy, such as the unifying principle that defines the labor movement; mutual support within a group.
(uncountable) Willingness to give psychological and/or material support when another person is in a difficult position or needs affection.
(biochemistry) An interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another
As a proper noun solidarity
is a political movement begun in the labor unions of poland that contributed to the fall of communism in that country.As a noun cooperativity is
(biochemistry) an interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another.solidarity
English
Noun
- A long time union member himself, Phil showed solidarity with the picketing grocery store workers by shopping at a competing, unionized store.
- Only the solidarity provided by her siblings allowed Margaret to cope with her mother's harrowing death.