Definitions for unities

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unities u·ni·ty

Spelling: [yoo-ni-tee]

IPA: /ˈyu nɪ ti/

Unities is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in unities (eiinstu).

Definitions for unities

noun

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.
6. Mathematics. the number one; a quantity regarded as one. 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 structure (the three unities) derived from Aristotelian aesthetics and formalized in the neoclassic canon in which a play is required to represent action as taking place in one day (unity of time) as occurring within one place (unity of place) and as having a single plot with a beginning, middle, and end (unity of action)

Origin of unities

1250-1300; Middle English unite Old French Latin ūnitās, equivalent to ūn(us) one + -itās -ity

Examples for unities

It is a good story, well told, with the unities well preserved.

The rules of the unities were not observed by Hardy—were perhaps unknown to him.

Do not be afraid of incongruities—do not think of unities of effect.

The general meaning is clear enough, but the unities are disregarded.

He rode roughshod over the unities of time, place, and action.

Gordobuc is severely classical in its unities; it is of the Senecan species.

The mele does not stick to the unities as we understand them.

Are not the unities and the proportions disregarded in his plays?

Even in books I like a confined locality, and so do the critics when they talk of the unities.

How are the unities of time, place, and action treated in Schiller's ballads?