Meanings
plural univocities
- countableuncountableThe state or essence of being univocal.
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.
1852, J. H., Colloquial Soliloquies; being a Day's Serious Table-Talk on serious subjects - countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.
Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.
1999, Armand Augustine Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles1 more example
In opposition to their assertions, Williams argues that univocity is not only true (as he previously outlined), but it is also salutary.
2014, Daniel P. Horan, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus
Origin
- Late Latinūnivocitās
- Englishunivocity
From Late Latin ūnivocitās, from ūnivocus (“univocal”).
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univocity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univocity
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