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’.