Solidarity

Noun

 * 1)  A bond of unity between individuals, united around a common goal or against a common enemy, such as the unifying principle that defines the labor movement.
 * A long time union member himself, Phil showed solidarity with the picketing grocery store workers by shopping at a competing, unionized store.
 * 1)  Willingness to give psychological and/or material support when another person is in a difficult position or needs affection.
 * Only the solidarity provided by her siblings allowed Margret to cope with her mother's harrowing death.

Related terms

 * solid
 * solidary
 * solidus

Verbs for Solidarity
cement—; cleave—; compromise—; disrupt—; endanger—; fracture—; gnaw at—; hazard—; impair—; jeopardize—; link in—; maintain—; mar—; menace—; mould—; nurse—; preserve—; rend—; rupture—; sap—; shake—; split—; strain—; sustain—; threaten—; undermine—; weld—; — crumbles; —disintegrates; —prevails; —totters.

Thesaurus
accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, bipartisanship, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, cohesion, cohesiveness, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, combination, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communion, communism, communitarianism, community, community of interest, community of interests, compatibility, completeness, complicity, comprehensiveness, comradeship, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, congeniality, cooperation, cooperativeness, correspondence, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, entireness, entirety, esprit, esprit de corps, exhaustiveness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, firmness, fixity, frictionlessness, fusion, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, inclusiveness, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, particularity, peace, pervasiveness, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, purity, quartet, quintet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, selfsameness, septet, sextet, sharing, simplicity, single-mindedness, singleness, singleness of purpose, singularity, sodality, solidification, solidity, symbiosis, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, thoroughness, togetherness, totality, trio, triumvirate, troika, ubiquity, unanimity, understanding, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unison, united action, unity, universality, univocity, wholeness