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oneness

oneness noun: the state of being one or undivided; unity.

Noun

oneness (countable and uncountable, plural onenesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being one or undivided; unity.
    • Second, the amount of zeroness and oneness that a qubit may have is arbitrary and takes on a continuum of values, but when we measure it, we obtain a 0 or a 1 […]2000, Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater, Ultimate zero and one: computing at the quantum frontier
    • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
  2. (countable) The product of being one or undivided.

oneness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

oneness in Hindi

state of being undivided
एकता ektā, एका ekā

oneness in Tamil

ஒத்த தன்மை, ஒருமை, மாறா நிலை

oneness in Urdu

وحدانیت, وحدت

oneness in Kannada

ಒರಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
oneness in Sanskrit
ऐक्य aikya
oneness in Arabic
وَحْدَانِيَّة waḥdāniyya, وحدَة

Synonyms of oneness

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of oneness

Forms of oneness

pluralonenesses

Origin of oneness

From Middle English oonnesse, onnesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainnassī (“oneness”), equivalent to one + -ness. Cognate with Old High German einnissī, einnissa (“unity, oneness”).

Words formed from oneness

Questions about oneness

What does oneness mean?
Oneness means the state of being one or undivided; unity.
What is oneness in Hindi?
Oneness in Hindi is एकता (ektā), एका (ekā). See Oneness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is oneness?
Oneness is a noun.
What is the plural of oneness?
The plural of oneness is onenesses.

Words near oneness in the dictionary

  1. oneliners
  2. oneliness
  3. oneling
  4. onely
  5. onement
  6. oneness
  7. Oneness Pentecostalism
  8. onenesses
  9. Oneonta
  10. Oneota
  11. oner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oneness (page history and authors); oneness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oneness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oneness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ऐक्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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