Unity

Quick meaning: Unity is a noun meaning (uncountable) Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

Meaning

(uncountable) Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

More Meanings

1. Agreement; harmony.
2. A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
3. (law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
4. (mathematics) The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
5. (drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
6. (Quakerism) The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.

Example Sentences

the cube roots of unity

Near-synonyms: unification, unionization, integration

Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.

If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity [translating Einheit] out of them.

Word Forms

• unities

Synonyms for unity

Depending on context, synonyms include union, unitedness, onehead, oneness, oneship, singleness.

Antonyms for unity

Common opposites include disunity, multiplicity, plurality, manyness, manifoldness, manyhood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oneness, integrity, wholeness, single, one, i.

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