oneness
- 01 C1 Advanced
the state of being completely joined or in harmony with something else.
the quality of being one or undivided; a state of complete unity or harmony between different parts or entities.
Simple“After hiking for hours, he felt a deep sense of oneness with the natural world.”
In context“The poet explores the mystical oneness between the individual soul and the vastness of the cosmos, suggesting that all boundaries are merely illusions.”
UsageOften used with the preposition 'with' to show what someone is connected to.
Teacher's tipThis is a high-level word mostly found in spiritual, philosophical, or very formal literary writing; it is rarely used in everyday conversation.
Antonyms
From Middle English oonnesse, onnesse, from Old English ānnes (“oneness, unity, agreement, covenant, solitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainnassī (“oneness”), equivalent to one + -ness. Cognate with Old High German einnissī, einnissa (“unity, oneness”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.