UNANIMITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unanimity mean? 

• UNANIMITY (noun)
  The noun UNANIMITY has 1 sense:

1. everyone being of one mind

  Familiarity information: UNANIMITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNANIMITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Everyone being of one mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("unanimity" is a kind of...):

accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)

Derivation:

unanimous (in complete agreement)

unanimous (acting together as a single undiversified whole)

 Context examples 

If Tom is up, I shall go to him directly and get it over, and when we meet at breakfast we shall be all in high good-humour at the prospect of acting the fool together with such unanimity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great impediments arose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all uninterrupted enjoyment to the party themselves, and that she had not to witness the continuance of such unanimity and delight as had been almost too much for her at first.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This project could not be of any great expense to the public; and might in my poor opinion, be of much use for the despatch of business, in those countries where senates have any share in the legislative power; beget unanimity, shorten debates, open a few mouths which are now closed, and close many more which are now open; curb the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old; rouse the stupid, and damp the pert.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)