unanimity

UK/ˌjuːnəˈnɪmɪti/US/ˌjuːnəˈnɪmɪti/

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,909 of 15,258leans written

Unanimity is complete agreement among everybody. Rare unanimity, reach unanimity, unanimity of view.

It requires every single person, so one dissenting voice ends it. The Latin is one mind, and unanimous is the adjective beside it.

Definitions of unanimity

1noununanimityComplete agreement among everybody.C1
“There was a rare unanimity in the room about what had gone wrong.”

unanimity is an agreement.

Where it comes from

Latin unanimitas is unus, one, plus animus, mind: of one mind.

Latin
ūnanimitās
Middle French
unanimité
English, today
unanimity

From unanim(ous) + -ity, from Middle French unanimité, from Latin ūnanimitās. Displaced native ānmōdnes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unanimity in the wild

Consensus differs from unanimity, which requires all participants to support a decision.
Consensus decision-making
Often, a split decision causes controversy due to its lack of unanimity.
Split decision
Scholars do not have unanimity among them about the place where Mukundraj mostly lived.
Mukundraj
The requisite majority by balloting was considered a process for determining divine unanimity, that is, sanior et maior pars (Latin: sounder and greater part).
Quia propter
Homonoia or Homonoea, in ancient Greek religion and mythology, was a minor goddess of concord, unanimity, and oneness of mind.
Homonoia (mythology)

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