univocity

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word univocity. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word univocity, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say univocity in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word univocity you have here. The definition of the word univocity will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofunivocity, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin ūnivocitās, from ūnivocus (“univocal”).

Pronunciation

Noun

univocity (countable and uncountable, plural univocities)

  1. The state or essence of being univocal.
    • 1852, J. H., Colloquial Soliloquies; being a Day's Serious Table-Talk on serious subjects‎:
      Six voices at once are in all fairness more than you could bid me reply to, were it not for the unanimity expressed by your univocity all shouting the same two monosyllables.
  2. (philosophy) The idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.
    • 1999, Armand Augustine Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles‎:
      Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.
    • 2014, Daniel P. Horan, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus‎:
      In opposition to their assertions, Williams argues that univocity is not only true (as he previously outlined), but it is also salutary.

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia