oneness

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oneness

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From Middle English oonnesse, onnesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainnassī (“oneness”), equivalent to one + -ness. Cognate with Old High German einnissī, einnissa (“unity, oneness”).

noun onenesses

  1. uncountable The state of being one or undivided; unity. Second, the amount of zeroness and oneness that a qubit may have is arbitrary and takes on a continuum of values, but when we measure it, we obtain a 0 or a 1 […]
  2. countable The product of being one or undivided.

Similar: onehead, oneness, oneship, singleness, unicity, unitude, unity · Opposite: disunity, manyness

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noun state of being undivided

Españolunidad
日本語一体性 ittaisei
中文統一性 /统一性 tǒngyīxìng
हिन्दीएकता ektā, एका ekā
Kiswahiliumoja
Portuguêsunidade, unicidade
Françaisunité
DeutschEinheit
Românăunitate
Русскийеди́нство jedínstvo
العربيةوَحْدَانِيَّة waḥdāniyya, وحدَة

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"oneness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/oneness. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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oneness. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/oneness

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"oneness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/oneness.

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@misc{oneness_2026,
  title = {oneness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oneness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}