What does quaternity mean?
Quaternity means A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet..
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/kwəˈtɜːnɪti/ · noun
A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet..
[T]heir VVhole Scale, of all that is above the Body, vvas indeed not a Trinity, but a Quaternity, or Four Ranks and Degrees of Beings, one belovv another; the Firſt of Henades or Unities, the Second of Noes, Minds or Intellects, the Third of Souls, and the Laſt of Natures: theſe being as it vvere ſo many Orbs and Spheres, one vvithin and belovv another.
It should perhaps be noted that, throughout the development of his psychological system, [Carl] Jung demonstrated a remarkable passion for the detection of opposites and their resolution through the constellation of quaternities. Not only are there four psychic functions of thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, but he pointed to Empedocles' four elements, Hippocrates' four 'humours', the ascending quaternity of anima figures (Eve, Helen, Mary, Sophia), the four figures of the Trinity together with the Virgin Mary, and he frequently quoted the lines from the 'Kabeiroi Scene' of [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe's Faust II: 'Three we took off beside us, / The fourth of them denied us.'
The firſt vvith divers crooks and turnings vvries, / Cutting the tovvn in foure quaternities; / But both joyn to reſiſt invading enemies.
Some that in mystical quaternity / All Deity existed; and the first / Y'cleped Ineffable, and the last, Truth; / Father and Son, gods intermediate.
Use quaternity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Quaternity means A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet..
Common synonyms include foursome, quadruplet, quadruplicity, quadrad.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[T]heir VVhole Scale, of all that is above the Body, vvas indeed not a Trinity, but a Quaternity, or Four Ranks and Degrees of Beings, one belovv another; the Firſt of Henades or Unities, the Second of Noes, Minds or Intellects, the Third of Souls, and the Laſt of Natures: theſe being as it vvere ſo many Orbs and Spheres, one vvithin and belovv another.
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