unities
- 1Plural of unity.
Classical critics praised the tragedy for carefully observing the dramatic unities.
Many modern playwrights ignore the classical unities altogether.
Note
The plural reaches only the countable meanings of unity. Oneness itself, the undivided state, takes no plural. Its best-known use is the dramatic unities: action, place and time, the three classical rules usually cited together as a set. Lawyers speak of the unities of an estate held in joint tenancy, and mathematicians of unities as elements that behave like the number 1 under multiplication.
unities is a form of unity
unity, noun: The quality of forming a single, undivided whole, as a well-made novel or a united empire does. Full entry
- Forms
- unityunities plural
- Spelling
- unity → unities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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