oneness

oneness

English

Etymology

From Middle English oonnesse, onnesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), equivalent to one +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

oneness (countable and uncountable, plural onenesses)

1. (uncountable) State of being one or undivided; unity.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     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; […].

2. (countable) The product of being one or undivided.

Synonyms

• (state of being one): See also Thesaurus:oneness

Related terms

• one
• only

Translations

state of being undivided

Arabic: وَحْدَانِيَّة‎ f (waḥdāniyya), وحدَة‎ f Bulgarian: еди́нство (bg) n (edínstvo), цялост (bg) f (cjalost) Chinese: Mandarin: 統一性／统一性 (zh) (tǒngyīxìng) Czech: jednota (cs) f Dutch: eenheid (nl) n Finnish: ykseys (fi) French: unité (fr) f Georgian: ერთადერთობა (ertadertoba), ერთობა (ertoba) German: Einheit (de) f Greek: Ancient: ἕνωσις f (hénōsis) Hindi: एकता (hi) f (ektā), एका (hi) m (ekā) Japanese: 一体性 (いったいせい, ittaisei) Latin: ūnitās f Macedonian: е́динство n (édinstvo) Portuguese: unidade (pt) f Romanian: unitate (ro) f Russian: еди́нство (ru) n (jedínstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јединство n Roman: jedinstvo (sh) n Southern Altai: бирлик (birlik) Spanish: unidad (es) f Swahili: umoja (sw) Turkish: birlik (tr)

See also

• onehood
• twoness
• threeness
• manyness
• undivided
• unity

Anagrams

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