unity: Meaning and Definition of

u•ni•ty

1. the state of being one; oneness.
2. a whole or totality as combining all its parts into one.
3. the state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification.
4. absence of diversity; unvaried or uniform character.
5. oneness of mind, feeling, etc., as among a number of persons; concord, harmony, or agreement.
1. the number one; a quantity regarded as one.
2. identity (def. 9).
7. (in literature and art) a relation of all the parts or elements of a work constituting a harmonious whole and producing a single general effect.
8. one of the three principles of dramatic structurederived from Aristotelian aesthetics and formalized in the neoclassic canon in which a play is required to represent action as taking place in one dayas occurring within one placeand as having a single plot with a beginning, middle, and end