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Another word for unanimity

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Noun

  1. The quality or condition of being in complete agreement or harmony

    See also:

    agree

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Another word for unanimity

Noun
      1. The degree with which software works with hardware and/or other software. As hardware and software evolve, compatibility is a fundamental problem that never ends in the computer industry. At some point in time, new hardware instructions have to be developed that allow a computer to process more efficiently, and existing software has to be updated to take advantage of it. Equally important is the enhancement of operating systems and their related development systems in order to perform new tasks. Applications have to be modified to take advantage of them. See standards.
      1. A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, Copley and the painter in The painter Copley was born in Boston.
      2. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
      3. A placing side by side or next to each other.
      1. The act, fact, or state of agreeing or conforming:
      2. A similarity, connection, or equivalence:
      3. Communication by the exchange of letters, e-mails, or other forms of written messages.
      1. Similarity in form or character; agreement:
      2. Action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws:
      3. The relationship between rock or sediment strata that were deposited adjacently or vertically in sequence without any interruption due to erosion, tilting, folding, or similar natural processes.
      1. Agreement, harmony, conformity, or correspondence.
      2. An instance of this:
      3. The state of being congruent.
      1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the distress of another; commiseration.
      2. An expression of such feeling:
      3. Mutual understanding or feeling between people:
      1. Agreement; concord.
      2. An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word:
      3. The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.
      1. An orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole:
      2. A relationship in which various components exist together without destroying one another:
      3. A relationship characterized by a lack of conflict or by agreement, as of opinion or interest:
      1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole:
      2. General agreement or accord:
      1. Harmony or agreement of interests or feelings; accord.
      2. A treaty establishing peaceful relations.
      3. Agreement between words in person, number, gender, or case.
      1. Identity of pitch; the interval of a perfect prime.
      2. The combination of parts at the same pitch or in octaves.
      3. The action of speaking the same words simultaneously:
      1. The state or quality of being one or united into a whole:
      2. The state or quality of being in accord; harmony:
      3. The state or quality of being unified in an aesthetic whole, as in a work of literature:
      1. To give or grant, especially as being due or appropriate:
      2. To cause to conform or agree; bring into harmony.
      3. To be in agreement, unity, or harmony.
    See also:

    agreement

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • With graceful unanimity all parties combined to show their sense of the national loss.

  • If unanimity cannot be secured on any question, it will be referred by the members of the Commission to their respective Governments.

  • In the West there was unanimity only on three points: the necessity of baptism for the remission of sins, the inheritance of sin as a result of Adam's fall, and the indispensableness of the divine grace in the attainment of goodness.

  • Now as to this there is quite a remarkable unanimity in the testimony of the ancients, and the evidence is of the strongest kind, ascending to Herodotus, and, according to the account of Diogenes Laertius, even to Xenophanes, who was an Ionian, and not much later than Thales.

  • The date of the evidence, however, has not been fixed with unanimity, and this very The musical service of the temple has no place in the Pentateuch, but was considerably developed under the second temple and attracted the special attention of Greek observers (Theophrastus, apud Porphyry, de Abstin.

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