Meaning and Origin
What does the name Unity mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- According to a user from Virginia, U.S., the name Unity is of English origin and means "Oneness".
- The state of being one; oneness."Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity." [Locks.]
- Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine. "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" [Ps. cxxxiii. 1.]
- [Math] Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
- [Poetry & Rhet] In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
- [Fine Arts & Mus] Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
- [Law] The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.synonyms: Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union.
Note: ☞ Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union.
Note: ☞ The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity.
Note: ☞ In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece.
Note: ☞ The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate.
Etymology: OE. unite, F. unité, L. unitas, from unus one. See One, and cf. Unit
- The quality of being united into one
- The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting ("he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia")
Majuscule letter version of unity.
- A female given name from English.
- A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, also known as Hodges Park Station.
- A small unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
- A town and census-designated place in Waldo County, Maine.
- An unorganized territory in Kennebec County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri.
- A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- An unincorporated community in Adams County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
- A tiny city in Baker County, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
- A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
- A village in Clark County and Marathon County, Wisconsin, located partly within the town of Unity.
- A small town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.