oneness
English
Etymology
From Middle English onnesse, annesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), equivalent to one + -ness.
Noun
oneness (countable and uncountable, plural onenesses)
- (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; […].
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- (countable) The product of being one or undivided.
Translations
state of being undivided
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