unanimity
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Etymology
[edit]From unanim(ous) + -ity, from Middle French unanimité, from Late Latin ūnanimitās. Displaced native Old English ānmōdnes (literally “one-mindedness”).
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[edit]unanimity (countable and uncountable, plural unanimities)
- The condition of agreement by all parties, the state of being unanimous.
- Synonym: consensus
- Antonym: pluranimity
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, “Of the Ground of Induction”, in A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, § 3, page 379:
- Mankind were wrong, it seems, in concluding that all swans were white: are we also wrong, when we conclude that all men's heads grow above their shoulders, and never below, in spite of the conflicting testimony of the naturalist Pliny? As there were black swans, though civilised people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them, may there not also be "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders," notwithstanding a rather less perfect unanimity of negative testimony from all observers? Most persons would answer No; it was more credible that a bird should vary in its colour, than that man should vary in the relative position of his principal organs.
- 1997 March 23, James Gleick, “Pushy, Pushy”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
- Those responsible for preannouncing the Internet's hot new ideas are pushing Push with a ferocious unanimity.
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