UNITY

noun (plural -ties) see: one Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of not being multiple ; oneness , b. a definite amount taken as one or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation , identity element , 2. a condition of harmony ; accord , continuity without deviation or change (as in purpose or action), 3. the quality or state of being made one ; unification , a combination or ordering of parts in a literary or artistic production that constitutes a whole or promotes an undivided total effect, a totality of related parts ; an entity that is a complex or systematic whole, any of three principles of dramatic structure derived by French classicists from Aristotle's Poetics and requiring a play to have a single action represented as occurring in one place and within one day, a 20th century American religious movement that emphasizes spiritual sources of health and prosperity