oneness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English oonnesse, onnesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainnassī (“oneness”), equivalent to one + -ness. Cognate with Old High German einnissī, einnissa (“unity, oneness”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being one or undivided; unity.
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; […].
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:Second, the amount of zeroness and oneness that a qubit may have is arbitrary and takes on a continuum of values, but when we measure it, we obtain a 0 or a 1 […]
2000, Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater, Ultimate zero and one: computing at the quantum frontier:
- (countable) The product of being one or undivided.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| onenesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
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Relateds
three-in-oneness · threeness · manyness · one · undivided · only · onehood · twoness · unity
Synonyms
singleness · onehead · unitude · oneship · unity · oneness · unicity
Translations (32)
fr unité (state of being undivided) · pt unidade (state of being undivided) · bg еди́нство (state of being undivided) · sh јединство (state of being undivided) · alt бирлик (state of being undivided) · ka ერთობა (state of being undivided) · nl eenheid (state of being undivided) · cmn 統一性 /统一性 (state of being undivided) · tr birlik (state of being undivided) · ka ერთადერთობა (state of being undivided) · fi ykseys (state of being undivided) · es unidad (state of being undivided) · hi एकता (state of being undivided) · de Einheit (state of being undivided) · sq njëjësi (state of being undivided) · ru еди́нство (state of being undivided) · ja 一体性 (state of being undivided) · la ūnitās (state of being undivided) · mk е́динство (state of being undivided) · sh jedinstvo (state of being undivided) · ro unitate (state of being undivided) · bg цялост (state of being undivided) · hi एका (state of being undivided) · ar وَحْدَانِيَّة (state of being undivided) · enm onnesse (state of being undivided) · ar وحدَة (state of being undivided) · sw umoja (state of being undivided) · cy undod (state of being undivided) · cy under (state of being undivided) · pt unicidade (state of being undivided) · grc ἕνωσις (state of being undivided) · cs jednota (state of being undivided)