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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oneness
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And there can be no oneness without trust.
▪ For Abbott, it was not the oneness found in shared religious exuberance that one should hope for.
▪ I feel an extremely intimate oneness with the universe and all physical aspects vanish....
▪ It was a mob of 20, 000 united into oneness.
▪ She had forgotten what she was in their isolated milieu of oneness.
▪ This is the financial expression of oneness.
▪ When a conquest is made, the oneness of the individual is often superseded by a state of oneness in the partnership.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oneness

Oneness \One"ness\, n. The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity.

Our God is one, or rather very oneness.
--Hooker.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oneness

1590s, from one + -ness. A re-formation of Middle English onnesse, which vanished by 13c.

Wiktionary
oneness

n. (context uncountable English) State of being one or undivided; unity.

WordNet
oneness

n. the quality of being united into one [syn: unity]

Wikipedia
Oneness

Oneness may refer to:

  • Law of one price (LoP), an economic concept which posits that "a good must sell for the same price in all locations".
  • Collatz conjecture, a mathematical concept of oneness
  • Divine simplicity, a theological doctrine that holds God is without parts
  • Henosis, a concept in Greek mysticism denoting "oneness" or "unity"
  • Meditative absorption, oneness, Samadhi
  • Monism, a metaphysical concept in philosophy
  • Monotheism, the belief that only one deity exists
  • Tawhid, Islam's fundamental concept that God is one and single
  • Oneness Pentecostalism, a movement of nontrinitarian denominations
  • The Oneness of Religion, in the Bahai faith.
  • OneNess, a poet/singer/entertainer (see Poet in the City)
In music
  • Oneness (Carlos Santana album), a 1979 rock album
  • GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, the 1990 debut album by American rock band Ween
  • Oneness (Jack DeJohnette album), a 1997 jazz album
Oneness (Carlos Santana album)

Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality is a 1979 album by Carlos Santana. It was his second of three solo albums (the others being Illuminations and The Swing of Delight) to be released under his temporary Sanskrit name Devadip Carlos Santana, given to him by Sri Chinmoy. The album features members of the band Santana, and consists mostly of instrumental songs and ballads.

Oneness (Jack DeJohnette album)

Oneness is an album by Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain, Jerome Harris and Don Alias, recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label. The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine states "Oneness stands as a welcome, minimalist and challenging effort from DeJohnette".

Usage examples of "oneness".

Whether Freudian or cognitivist, you had to wonder about the oneness experience for an AI like Manny.

Our duty lies in educating souls so that the Sun of the bestowals of God shall become resplendent in them, and this is possible through the power of the oneness of humanity.

Verily, Thy servant, humble before the majesty of Thy divine supremacy, lowly at the door of Thy oneness, hath believed in Thee and in Thy verses, hath testified to Thy word, hath been enkindled with the fire of Thy love, hath been immersed in the depths of the ocean of Thy knowledge, hath been attracted by Thy breezes, hath relied upon Thee, hath turned his face unto Thee, hath offered his supplications to Thee, and hath been assured of Thy pardon and forgiveness.

Glory be unto Thee for that Thou hast confirmed me to the confession of Thy oneness, attracted me unto the word of Thy singleness, enkindled me by the fire of Thy love, and occupied me with Thy mention and the service of Thy friends and maidservants.

These are Thy servants who are attracted by the fragrances of Thy mercifulness, are enkindled by the fire burning in the tree of Thy singleness, and whose eyes are brightened by beholding the splendors of the light shining in the Sinai of Thy oneness.

We are rather attempting to realize our eternal oneness with the unthinkable immediacy of God in and as the immediacy of all that we simply are, one with all that the present moment simply is.

How and then a stray limmer of sunslie would escape the haze ,and turn the oily smooth surface into a sparlding pool which would himmer and move and sfide back into the brown oneness of the river.

I dropped to the lotus position, formed the mudra of the compassionate Buddha with my fingers, and lickity-split was on the sitting-still road to oneness with allthatness.

Reasoning in this way, the Egyptians naturally tended towards that conception of the divine oneness to which the theory of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad was already leading them.

In passing from ego consciousness to meditative states of awareness, we are awakened to that eternal oneness with God that is the very reality of ourselves and of everyone and everything around us.

In the traditional Christian sources we will be exploring here, these methods include ways of detaching ourselves from our customary reliance on thoughts, memories, and other aspects of ego consciousness that tend to block the subtle, wholly spiritual contemplative states of realized oneness with God.

As used in this latter sense, Christian meditation includes both the act of inviting and opening ourselves to a graced realization of oneness with God and the mystical fulfillment received in this active seeking.

And so it is that such a simple act as lighting a candle or bowing in silence before an image of Christ can embody the mystery of yielding ourselves to ever deeper realizations of oneness with God.

And it is here, too, that we find ourselves in the midst of the living essence of Christian meditation as a way of intimately realizing the eternal oneness with God that Christ came to proclaim.

It was, rather, a machine psychometry, literally an empathy: a feeling and more than a feeling of oneness with functioning devices.