Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of unity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of unity; a state of separation.
- noun The absence of unity of feelings or interests; want of concord.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The lack of
unity orcohesion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In a democracy, disunity is not just the reality, it's the premise.
Not the Ones We've Been Waiting For Bret Stephens 2010
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Such disunity is raw feed for the anti-gunners and we need it like we need a hole in the head.
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History records that the road to international disunity is strewn with skeletons of appeasement.
CanadaWhither? 1968
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He’s been making the tactical error of not telling Democrats what they want to hear lately*, so any excuse to discount this cold water on GOP party disunity is a good enough one, right?
Fortunately, they will ignore Tom Jensen utterly. | RedState 2010
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The social evils of Plato´s time, namely disunity, incompetence and violence, are still present and will always be for as long as there are political communities and incompetent rulers unable to impose rules thus triggering a process of political so-cialization that will change individual attitudes.
American Chronicle American Chronicle 2010
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The disunity is a consequence of how the issue has been managed and broadened out to concerns about the management of the party in general.
unknown title 2009
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KUCHING: The so-called disunity among members of the state Barisan Nasional is a fallacy, said Parti Rakyat Sarawak president Datuk Seri James Masing.
unknown title 2009
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The disunity is a consequence of how the issue has been managed and broadened out to concerns about the management of the party in general.
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No, he was counting on the "disunity" between HC and BO supporters.
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You don't want that kind of disunity in your administration.
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