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Definition: Unanimity |
UnanimityNoun1. Everyone being of one mind. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unanimity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi; popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion; concurrence; (of causes); cooperation; (voluntary). |
Concord | Noun: concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue; agreement; sympathy, empathy; (love); response; union, unison, unity; bonds of harmony; peace; unanimity; (assent); league; happy family. |
Cooperation | Unanimity; (assent); esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship, partisanship; concord. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unanimity |
| English words defined with "unanimity": With one accord. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unanimity": chiclet keyboard. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Unanimity. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | On the following questions unanimity is necessary: (a) Questions involving the sovereignty of any of the Allied and Associated Powers, or the cancellation of the whole or any part of the debt or obligations of Germany; (b) Questions of determining the amount and conditions of bonds or other obligations to be issued by the German Government and of fixing the time and manner for selling, negotiating or distributing such bonds; (c) Any postponement, total or partial, beyond the end of 1930, of the payment of installments falling due between May 1, 1921, and the end of 1926 inclusive; (d) Any postponement, total or partial, of any installment falling due after 1926 for a period exceeding three years; (e) Questions of applying in any particular case a method of measuring damages different from that which has been previously applied in a similar case; (f) Questions of the interpretation of the provisions of this Part of the present Treaty. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Before this accusation, before the unanimity of the witnesses, the principal emotion evinced by the accused was astonishment. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | Unanimity now is required only for appointment and dismissal of the general director and the first deputy general director and amendments to the JV charter. (references) |
Vietnam | Under the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement, the unanimity rule in the remaining areas is to be phased out within three years of entry into force of the agreement. (references) | |
Political Economy | Luxembourg | Luxembourg accepted the EU's June 2000 Feira Summit proposals for a gradual elimination of national legislation permitting bank secrecy, but only under strict conditions of voluntary unanimity. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Its character has been pronounced by the indignant voices of our citizens with an emphasis and unanimity never exceeded. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With a full understanding of the subject, the Choctaw and the Chickasaw tribes have with great unanimity determined to avail themselves of the liberal offers presented by the act of Congress, and have agreed to remove beyond the Mississippi River. |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | Upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment--that conflicting claims to the Presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted, and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow. |
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| "Unanimity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unanimity" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 177 | 23,322 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unanimity": approve by unanimity. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "unanimity": near-unanimity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unanimity | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "unanimity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njëzëshmëri (unison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إجماع (assent, consensus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | единодушие (consensus, consentaneity, oneness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 全"一致. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | shoda (accord, accordance, agreement, community, compliance, concord, conformity, congruence, conjuncture, correspondence, Deuce, harmony, oneness, parity, understanding, union, unity), jednotnost (oneness, togetherness, uniformity, unity), jednomyslnost (consentaneity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | enstemmighed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eenparigheid van stemmen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکدلی (Empathy), هم راءی , اتفاق اراهم اوازی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksimielisyys (concord, unity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | unanimité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Einmütigkeit (unity), Einstimmigkeit (solidity), Einhelligkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ομοφωνία (consensus, unison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | י" אחת (accord, unison), תמימות "עים (naivety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyhangúság (flatness, humdrum, monotone, monotony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kebulatan (determination, roundness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | unanimit (unanimously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 同心 (concentricity, policeman, same mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうし" (child's mind, concentricity, moral sense, naivete, policeman, same mind, the same faith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 만장일치 (unanimous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | unnaneys aigney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | animityunay unanimidade. (various references) unanimitate (agreement, concord, consentaneity, harmony). (various references) единодушие (coalescence of councils, consensus, consentaneity). (various references) sloga (accord, concord, harmony, tune), složnost, jednoglasnost, jednodušnost. (various references) unanimidad. (various references) endräkt (concord, unison). (various references) oybirliği (a solid vote), fikir birliği (concurence, consensus), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, union, unit, unity). (various references) одностайність. (various references) sự nhất trí (consentaneity). (various references) unfrydedd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unanimity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ananimity, inanimacy, umanimity, unanamity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unanimity" (pronounced yuw'nuni"mutē) |
| 8 | -n u n i" m u t ē | anonymity. |
| 7 | -u n i" m u t ē | equanimity. |
| 5 | -i" m u t ē | proximity. |
| 4 | -m u t ē | amity, calamity, conformity, deformity, enmity, enormity, extremity, infirmity, Nonconformity, uniformity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, analyticity, animosity, annuity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, entity, equality, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-m-n-n-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: aminity, annuity, inanity, minutia. | |
-3 letters: intima, manitu, minyan, muntin, mutiny, numina, tinman. | |
-4 letters: amity, animi, aunty, matin, minny, minty, tinny, tunny, unity, unman, yamun. | |
-5 letters: amin, anti, aunt, ayin, inia, inti, main, many, maun, maut, mina, mini, mint, mity, muni, myna, tain, tiny, tuna, tyin, unai, unit, yuan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-m-n-n-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: inhumanity. | |
+5 letters: illuminatingly. | |
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