unity
Meanings
noun
- Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
- Agreement; harmony.
- A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
- 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).
- The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
- The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
- 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.
name
- A female given name from English.
- A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, also known as Hodges Park Station.
- A small unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
- A town and census-designated place in Waldo County, Maine.
- An unorganized territory in Kennebec County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri.
- A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- An unincorporated community in Adams County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English unite English unity From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. By surface analysis, unite + -y. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).
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