Noun

State of things being similar or identical.

A point of resemblance; a similarity.

State of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.

The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -

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.

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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:

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.