unity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   Near-synonyms: unification, unionization, integration

2. 2
   noun

   A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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 cube roots of unity

4. 4
   name

   A female given name from English.

   Hitler, it seemed, had two engagements in Munich that day; one was a visit with Unity Mitford, a Nazi sympathizer belonging to the well-known British Mitford family, who was recovering in a Munich hospital from an attempted suicide.

5. 5
   noun

   the quality of being united into one

6. 6
   noun

   the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

7. 7
   noun

   an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

8. 8
   noun

   Agreement; harmony.

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”).