Unity vs. Community — What's the Difference?

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

A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g.

The state or quality of being in accord; harmony

A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.

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

The district or locality in which such a group lives.

A whole that is a combination of parts

A group of people having common interests

Singleness or constancy of purpose or action; continuity

A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society

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.

Similarity or identity

The number 1.

Sharing, participation, and fellowship

See identity element.

Society as a whole; the public.

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

A group of organisms interacting with one another and with the environment in a specific region.

Agreement; harmony.

The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.

A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

(countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.

(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).

(countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.

(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.

A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

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

A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.

(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.

(uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.

The state of being one; oneness.

Common enjoyment or possession; participation.

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

Common character; likeness.

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.

Commonness; frequency.

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.

A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.

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

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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

A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.

An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality

Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.

The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number;

Common character; likeness.

The quality of being united into one

Commonness; frequency.

A group of people living in a particular local area;

A group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common;

Common ownership;

A group of nations having common interests;

The body of people in a learned occupation;

Agreement as to goals;

A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other