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Solidarity vs Solitude - What's the difference?

solidarity | solitude |

As nouns the difference between solidarity and solitude

is that solidarity is 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 while solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.

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.

solidarity

English

Noun

  • (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.
  • A long time union member himself, Phil showed solidarity with the picketing grocery store workers by shopping at a competing, unionized store.
  • (uncountable) Willingness to give psychological and/or material support when another person is in a difficult position or needs affection.
  • Only the solidarity provided by her siblings allowed Margaret to cope with her mother's harrowing death.

    solitude

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia solitude)
  • Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
  • A lonely or deserted place.
  • * 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
  • Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
    He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.

    Synonyms

    * aloneness

    Antonyms

    * intimacy

    Derived terms

    * two solitudes

    See also

    * loneliness ----