sympathy vs unity

sympathy

noun
  • Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it. 

  • Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. 

  • Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting. 

  • The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune. 

  • The ability to share the feelings of another. 

  • A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. 

  • An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. 

  • Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude. 

unity

noun
  • Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity. 

  • 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). 

  • The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy. 

  • 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. 

  • Agreement; harmony. 

  • A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself. 

  • The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication. 

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