Consistent vs Unity - What's the difference?
consistent | unity |
Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
Compatible, accordant.
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(logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
(in the plural, rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament.
* 1885 Catholic Dictionary 651
(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
* 1846 ,
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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:
(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.
As an adjective consistent
is of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.As a noun consistent
is (in the plural|rare) objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.As a proper noun unity is
.consistent
English
(consistency)Adjective
(en adjective)- The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
- He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
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Antonyms
* inconsistent * contradictoryNoun
(en noun)- The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from East to West? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from West to East? How then can you make these motions being conferred on the Earth ... to become consistents ?
- The consistentes stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens.
References
* * Catholic Dictionary (1885) * Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia - Supplement (1753) ----unity
English
(wikipedia unity)Noun
- 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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- 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 .
