unity

A feeling or situation in which people join together and support each other.

• The team showed great unity.
• The president called for national unity after the disaster.
• Working together helped build unity among the neighbors.

Similar words: solidarity, togetherness

Opposites: division

Common phrases: national unity, promote unity

The state of being a single complete thing, with no separate parts.

• The painting has a strong sense of unity.
• The philosopher explored the unity of mind and body.
• Removing that scene would damage the artistic unity of the film.

Similar words: oneness, wholeness

Opposites: fragmentation

Common phrases: unity of something, artistic unity

The number one, especially in mathematical expressions.

• The ratio is equal to unity.
• Dividing any positive number by itself gives unity.
• This fraction has a value less than unity.

Similar words: one

Common phrases: equal to unity, less than unity

One, or an element that leaves another element unchanged when they are multiplied together.

• One is the unity of this number system.
• We calculated the three cube roots of unity.
• The identity matrix serves as unity under matrix multiplication.

Similar words: multiplicative identity

Common phrases: roots of unity, multiplicative unity