Concord vs Unity - What's the difference?
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A state of agreement; harmony; union.
* Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -
(obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
* The concord made between Henry and Roderick. -
(grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
(legal, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
(probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
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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 proper nouns the difference between concord and unity
is that concord is the state capital of new hampshire while unity is .concord
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) concorde'', Latin ''concordia'', from . See heart, and compare accordNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl)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 .