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unity | concordance |

As a proper noun unity

is .

As a noun concordance is

agreement; accordance; consonance.

unity

English

(wikipedia unity)

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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.}}
  • 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.
  • Antonyms

    * (oneness) plurality, multiplicity, disunity

    concordance

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • agreement; accordance; consonance
  • * (rfdate)
  • Contrasts, and yet concordances .
  • (grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
  • An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
  • * c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
  • His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
  • (computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.