What is "unicity"

Unicity \U*nic"i*ty\, n. [L. unicus single. See Unique.] The condition of being united; quality of the unique; unification.

Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity.
--De Quincey.

The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy.
--Coleridge.

Etymology 1 n. oneness, uniqueness Etymology 2

a. Of or pertaining to one city.

Unicity refers to various things.

As a city-zoning and city unification term, unicity may refer to:

• A section of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba
• The unification of the City of Cape Town's local government
• The 1971 City of Winnipeg Act, which is often called unicity.

As a company, unicity may refer to:

• Unicity International, a network marketing company

As a service, unicity may refer to:

• The Unicity Bus System, which is a service of the city of Newark, New Jersey, and UD Transit of the University of Delaware.

Other:

• A unicity theorem is often called a uniqueness theorem
• Unicity is a measure of the easy of re-identification of individuals in sets of metadata
• Unicity distance is a term in cryptography
• Unicity is an album by Edward Simon
• Unicity, meaning; That we are a unique being of individuals but also a part of a whole or one entity(oneness).. e.g., a cell in our body that is unique but also part of our body. Mostly found in the gnosis writing of F.B. Count S.W., T. Ibn Q., W.W.A etc..
• Unicity (philosophy), concept that explains the particularity of each entity.

The principle of unicity explains that each event, each living being, each object, each person or each circumstance has the characteristic of its uniqueness, of its particularity. Other similar events, living beings, objects, persons or circumstances may exist, but never the same entity.