different between disunity vs unity

English

Etymology

dis- +? unity

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?ju?n?ti/

Noun

disunity (countable and uncountable, plural disunities)

1. The lack of unity or cohesion.
   • 1924, "Irish Crisis," Time, 29 Sep.,

     Others support either the North or the Free State; and so where there is disunity there is dissension.

Antonyms

• unity

Related terms

• disunite

Translations

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman unité, Old French unité, from Latin ?nit?s, from ?nus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -it?s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?n?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?jun?ti/

Noun

unity (countable and uncountable, plural unities)

1. (uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
   • 1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition

     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.
2. Agreement; harmony.
3. 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 [transl. Einheit] out of them.

4. (drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
5. (mathematics) The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.

   the cube roots of unity

6. (law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
7. (Quakerism) The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.

Synonyms

• (oneness): See also Thesaurus:oneness

Antonyms

• (oneness): plurality, multiplicity, disunity; see also Thesaurus:manyness

Derived terms

• Inity

Related terms

• unique
• unus

Translations