unicityn.
/juːˈnɪsɪti/ 1.
a. The fact of being or consisting of one in number or kind; oneness.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [noun] > condition of being
onenesseOE
onehoodc1225
unityc1330
onlepihead1340
oneheadc1350
singlertyc1400
onliheada1425
uniona1513
singularity1583
singleness1597
singularness1650
oneship1656
unit1670
onefoldness1674
unicity1691
unitude1841
monadity1844
unitarinessa1866
unitarity1922
1691 J. Howe Wks. (1834) 147/2 The most unquestionable unity or unicity of the Godhead.
1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 166 Composition is Unity, but simplicity is Unicity.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 55 For Unity or Unition, and indistinguishable Unicity or Oneness, are incompatible terms.
1849 H. Alford Greek Test. I. 608 The καινότης of this commandment consists in its simplicity and (so to speak) unicity.
1880 C. I. Black Proselytes of Ishmael 301 What our so-called Unitarians teach is..the Unicity of the Godhead.
b. Medicine. The theory that syphilis is caused by only one kind of venereal virus.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [noun] > other theories or doctrines
Galenism1728
Hippocratism1779
Ayurveda1789
rationalism1800
solidism1832
pneumatism1838
Arabism1847
organicism1853
Thomsonianism1853
physiatrics1858
unicity1861
stoicheiology1875
contrastimulism1881
pangermism1887
nihilism1900
naturopathy1901
physiatry1947
orgonomy1949
bioethics1970
1861 F. J. Bumstead Path. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. 349 Some explanation..of what was called by its discoverer [Ricord] the ‘unicity’ of syphilis.
2. The fact or quality of being unique; unique nature or character.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > fact of being unparalleled or unique
singlurec1400
oddness1581
unmatchableness1608
peerlessness1611
unmatchedness?1611
incomparability1632
incomparableness1633
inimitableness1660
unparalleledness1665
unparallelness1667
peculiarity1751
uniquity1789
uniqueness1802
unicity1859
phoenixity1886
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 106/1 Bernard then goes on to prove, by the method of elimination, the unicity and propriety of this property of the pancreatic secretion.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Which..gives The Faërie Queene its unique unicity, if such a conceit may be pardoned.
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