oneness

From Middle English oonnesse, onnesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), equivalent to one +‎ -ness.

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oneness (countable and uncountable, plural onenesses)

1. (uncountable) State of being one or undivided; unity.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].

2. (countable) The product of being one or undivided.

• (state of being one): See also Thesaurus:oneness

• Oneness Pentecostalism

• one
• only
• three-in-oneness

• onehood
• twoness
• threeness
• manyness
• undivided
• unity

• Essonne, Senones, senones