unities

Noun

unity (countable and uncountable, plural unities)

1. (uncountable) Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
   • Near-synonyms: unification, unionization, integration

   Synonyms:

   union, unitedness, onehead, oneness, oneship, singleness, unicity, unitude, unification, unionization

   Antonyms:

   disunity, multiplicity, plurality, manyness, manifoldness, manyhood, morefold, multeity, multipleness, nonunity

2. Agreement; harmony.
3. 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.1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 137
4. 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).
5. 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
6. The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

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