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unity

American  
[yoo-ni-tee] / ˈyu nɪ ti /

noun

plural

unities

  1. the state of being one; oneness.

    Synonyms:
    individuality, singularity, singleness
    Antonyms:
    variety, diversity

  2. a whole or totality as combining all its parts into one.

  3. the state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification.

  4. absence of diversity; unvaried or uniform character.

  5. oneness of mind, feeling, etc., as among a number of persons; concord, harmony, or agreement.

    Synonyms:
    unison, concert

  6. Mathematics.

    1. the number one; a quantity regarded as one.

    2. identity.

  7. (in literature and art) a relation of all the parts or elements of a work constituting a harmonious whole and producing a single general effect.

  8. one of the three principles of dramatic structure the three unities derived from Aristotelian aesthetics and formalized in the neoclassic canon in which a play is required to represent action as taking place in one day unity of time, as occurring within one place unity of place, and as having a single plot with a beginning, middle, and end unity of action.

unity British  
/ ˈjuːnɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being one; oneness

  2. the act, state, or quality of forming a whole from separate parts

  3. something whole or complete that is composed of separate parts

  4. mutual agreement; harmony or concord

    the participants were no longer in unity

  5. uniformity or constancy

    unity of purpose

  6. maths

    1. the number or numeral one

    2. a quantity assuming the value of one

      the area of the triangle was regarded as unity

    3. the element of a set producing no change in a number following multiplication

  7. the arrangement of the elements in a work of art in accordance with a single overall design or purpose

  8. any one of the three principles of dramatic structure deriving from Aristotle's Poetics by which the action of a play should be limited to a single plot (unity of action), a single location (unity of place), and the events of a single day (unity of time)

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Related Words

See union.

Other Word Forms

  • nonunity noun
  • self-unity noun
  • superunity noun

Etymology

Origin of unity

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English unite, from Old French, from Latin ūnitās, from ūn(us) one + -itās -ity

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