n.
(pl. unities)
- the state of being united.
▸a thing forming a complex whole.
- Mathematics the number one.
- a dramatic principle requiring limitation of the supposed time of a drama to that occupied in acting it or to a single day (unity of time), use of one scene throughout (unity of place), or concentration on a single plot (unity of action).
Etymology
ME: from OFr. unite, from L. unitas, from unus ‘one’.