threeness

English

Etymology

From three +‎ -ness. Compare Old English þrīnes (“trinity”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈθɹiːnəs/

Noun

threeness (countable and uncountable; plural threenesses)

1. The state of being three; triunity; trinity.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 218:

     the Cappadocian Fathers provided a way of speaking about the Trinity which would create a balance between threeness and oneness.

   • 2012, Gilles Emery, Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook Of The Trinity:

     [...] This statement focuses more on God's oness than on his threeness.

2. A group of three; a trio.
3. (religious) The Trinity.
   • 2010, Jakob Boehme, Jeff Bach, Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent:

     Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]

Synonyms

• trinity
• tripartiteness