Dictionary entry overview: What does unity mean?

UNITY (noun) The noun UNITY has 3 senses: 1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting 2. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number 3. the quality of being united into one Familiarity information: UNITY used as a noun is uncommon.

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UNITY (noun)

Sense 1
Meaning: An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting Classified under: Nouns denoting stable states of affairs Synonyms: integrity; unity; wholeness Context examples:

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the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development / he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia Hypernyms ("unity" is a kind of...): state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) Attribute: broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split) unbroken (not broken; whole and intact; in one piece) whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete) fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unity"): completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed) incompleteness; rawness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)

Sense 2
Meaning: The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number Classified under: Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure Synonyms: one; ace; 1; I; single; unity Context examples: he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it / they had lunch at one Hypernyms ("unity" is a kind of...): digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unity"): monad; monas (a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive) singleton (a single object (as distinguished from a pair))

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Sense 3
Meaning: The quality of being united into one Classified under: Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects Synonyms: oneness; unity Hypernyms ("unity" is a kind of...): identicalness; identity; indistinguishability (exact sameness)

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COMPLETENESS (noun) The noun COMPLETENESS has 2 senses: 1. the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed 2. (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system