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of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity. Our God is one, or rather very oneness. Hooker.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.]

Solitude; seclusion. [Obs.] Donne.

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.

Proneness to dispute. [Obs.] Bp. Ward.

Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [Obs.] True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer.

Separate existence; individuality; oneness. Fuller.

A state of being not divided; oneness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.

Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency. "A proclivity to steal." Abp. Bramhall.

Proneness; propensity. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force. Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, And crosses not the spontaneities Of all his individual, personal life With formal universals. Mrs. Browning.

Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.

Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. [Colloq.]

The state of being one; oneness. Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks.