unity
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Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman unité, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
unity (countable and uncountable; plural unities)
- (uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
- 1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
- If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.
- 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, BBC Sport:
- Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.
- 1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
- A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 137:
- 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 [transl. Einheit] out of them.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 137:
- (drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`
- (mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
Antonyms[edit]
- (oneness): plurality, multiplicity, disunity
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the state of being one or undivided
drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
