#union.state  the state of being united; "there is strength in union"
  exclusion:  separation.unity
  supertype:  state  the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
  subtype:  coalition__fusion  the state of being combined into one body
     subtype:  alliance.coalition__confederation  the state of being allied or confederated
     subtype:  federalization__federalisation  the state of being federalized; "the federalization of postal service"
  subtype:  connectedness__connectednes__link  the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable"
     subtype:  lifeline.support  support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection); "the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin"; "she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief"
     subtype:  contact.connectedness  the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity: "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"
        subtype:  tangency  the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line
     subtype:  concatenation.connectedness  the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
     subtype:  interconnection__interconnectedness  a state of being connected reciprocally
     subtype:  cohesiveness__coherence__coherency__cohesion  the state of cohering
        subtype:  consistency.cohesiveness  logical coherence and accordance with the facts: "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"
        subtype:  continuity  uninterrupted connection or union
  subtype:  junction.union__conjunction  the state of being joined
     subtype:  anastomosis__inosculation  a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
     subtype:  synapse  the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of neurotransmitters"
        subtype:  neuromuscular_junction__neuromuscularjunction__myoneural_junction__myoneuraljunction  the junction between a nerve fiber and the muscle it supplies
  subtype:  association.union  the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"
  subtype:  marriage  a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
  subtype:  syncretism.union  the union (or attempted union) of different systems (especially in religion or philosophy); "a syncretism of material and immaterial theories"

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