univocity

English

Etymology

Late Latin ūnivocitās, from ūnivocus (“univocal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌjuːnɪˈvɒsɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɒsɪti

Noun

univocity (countable and uncountable, plural univocities)

1. The state or essence of being univocal.
   • 1852, J. H., Colloquial Soliloquies; being a Day's Serious Table-Talk on serious subjects‎^[1]:

     Six voices at once are in all fairness more than you could bid me reply to, were it not for the unanimity expressed by your univocity all shouting the same two monosyllables.

2. (philosophy) The idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.
   • 1999, Armand Augustine Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles‎^[2]:

     Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.

   • 2014, Daniel P. Horan, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus‎^[3]:

     In opposition to their assertions, Williams argues that univocity is not only true (as he previously outlined), but it is also salutary.

Further reading

• Univocity of being on Wikipedia.Wikipedia