oneness

English

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”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

oneness (countable and uncountable, plural onenesses)

1. (uncountable) State of being one or undivided; unity.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], 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; […].

2. (countable) The product of being one or undivided.

Synonyms

• (state of being one): See also Thesaurus:oneness

Derived terms

• Oneness Pentecostalism

Related terms

• one
• only
• three-in-oneness

Translations

state of being undivided

• Arabic: وَحْدَانِيَّة f (waḥdāniyya), وحدَة f
• Bulgarian: еди́нство (bg) n (edínstvo), цялост (bg) f (cjalost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 統一性／统一性 (zh) (tǒngyīxìng)

• Czech: jednota (cs) f
• Dutch: eenheid (nl) n
• Finnish: ykseys (fi)
• French: unité (fr) f
• Georgian: ერთადერთობა (ertadertoba), ერთობა (ertoba)
• German: Einheit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἕνωσις f (hénōsis)

• Hindi: एकता (hi) f (ektā), एका (hi) m (ekā)
• Japanese: 一体性 (いったいせい, ittaisei)
• Latin: ūnitās f
• Macedonian: е́динство n (édinstvo)
• Portuguese: unidade (pt) f
• Romanian: unitate (ro) f
• Russian: еди́нство (ru) n (jedínstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јединство n

  Roman: jedinstvo (sh) n

• Southern Altai: бирлик (birlik)
• Spanish: unidad (es) f
• Swahili: umoja (sw)
• Turkish: birlik (tr)

See also

• onehood
• twoness
• threeness
• manyness
• undivided
• unity

Anagrams

• Essonne, Senones, senones