different between trinity vs triunity

English

Etymology

trine +? -ity, from Old French trinité (French: trinité), from Latin tr?nit?s, from tr?ni (“three each”), from tr?s (“three”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n?ti/

Noun

trinity (plural trinities)

1. A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.

   • But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

2. The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.

Synonyms

• (group of three): threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
• (independence of three): threeness; see also Thesaurus:threeness

Derived terms

• nontrinitarian
• nontrinitarianism
• trinitarian

Translations

See also

• binitarian
• binity (“twoness”)
• duality (“twoness”)
• quaternity (“fourness”)
• quinity (“fiveness”)
• Trinity
• Trinity College
• unitarian
• unity (“oneness”)

English

Alternative forms

• Triunity
• Tri-Unity
• Tri-unity
• tri-unity

Etymology

From triune +? -ity; or from tri- +? unity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?a??ju?n?ti/

Noun

triunity (countable and uncountable, plural triunities)

1. The fact or state of being three in one (usually with reference to the Christian idea of the Trinity).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 46:

     God's attributes as such, his holiness, his justice, his mercy, his absoluteness, his infinity, his omniscience, his tri-unity [...] have proved fertile wells of inspiring meditation for Christian believers.

Derived terms

• triunitarian, tri-unitarian, Triunitarian, Tri-unitarian, Tri-Unitarian
• triunitarianism, tri-unitarianism, Triunitarianism, Tri-unitarianism, Tri-Unitarianism

Related terms

• trinitarian, Trinitarian
• trinitarianism, Trinitarianism
• trinity, Trinity
• unitrinity, uni-trinity
• unity, Unity

Translations

See also

• binitarian
• binitarianism
• oneness
• threeness
• unitarian, Unitarian
• unitarianism, Unitarianism