unity

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Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
  2. noun the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
  3. noun the quality of being united into one

Etymology

From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. By surface analysis, unite + -y. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).

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Synonyms

integrity, wholeness

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