unanimity

Noun

unanimity (countable and uncountable, plural unanimities)

1. The condition of agreement by all parties, the state of being unanimous.
   • Mankind were wrong, it seems, in concluding that all swans were white: are we also wrong, when we conclude that all men's heads grow above their shoulders, and never below, in spite of the conflicting testimony of the naturalist Pliny? As there were black swans, though civilised people had existed...1843, John Stuart Mill, “Of the Ground of Induction”, in A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific...
   • Those responsible for preannouncing the Internet's hot new ideas are pushing Push with a ferocious unanimity.1997 March 23, James Gleick, “Pushy, Pushy”, in The New York Times Magazine

   Synonyms:

   consensus

   Antonyms:

   pluranimity