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unity
/ˈjunɪti/
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What does unity mean?
noun
- Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
- Agreement; harmony.
- A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
More meanings (21)
noun
- 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.
proper noun
- A female given name from English.
- A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 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.
- A tiny city in Baker County, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
- A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
- A village in Clark County and Marathon County, Wisconsin, located partly within the town of Unity.
- A small town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
- A state of South Sudan.
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The scene was strangely homogeneous, in that the vale, the upland, the barrow, and the figure above it amounted only to unity.
We shall see directly how from the combination of these two zeros unity springs forth, or the idea which dispels the antinomy.
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The formation of such a mental unity results chiefly from the fact that in a crowd gestures and actions are extremely contagious.
Whenever the two creative principles were considered separately, there always appeared stationed over or above them, as their Creator, an indivisible unity.
It puts a premium on certain things and slurs over others, and creates a mind whose seeming unity is forced and distorted.