Unification vs. Unity — What's the Difference?

To make into or become a unit; consolidate.

The state or quality of being one or united into a whole

The act of unifying.

The state or quality of being in accord; harmony

The state of being unified.

The state or quality of being unified in an aesthetic whole, as in a work of literature

Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.

A whole that is a combination of parts

The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.

Singleness or constancy of purpose or action; continuity

An occurrence that involves the production of a union

One of the three principles of dramatic structure derived by French neoclassicists from Aristotle's Poetics, stating that a drama should have but one plot, which should take place in a single day and be confined to a single locale.

The state of being joined or united or linked;

The number 1.

The act of making or becoming a single unit;

See identity element.

(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

Agreement; harmony.

A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

(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).

(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.

(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

(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.

The state of being one; oneness.

Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.

Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.

In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.

Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.

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

An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality

The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number;

The quality of being united into one