collectivity
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being collective
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a collective whole or aggregate
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people regarded as a whole
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of collectivity
First recorded in 1860–65; collective + -ity
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In just over a year, curator Essence Harden said, “they’ve expanded our understanding of how performance and collectivity can coexist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
In actual fact, considering a tumour as a collectivity of individuals governed by rules previously defined in ecology opens up new therapeutic possibilities for patients.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The closest landmass to the epicenter is the Loyalty Islands in the French overseas collectivity of New Caledonia.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023
What makes ruangrupa radical, says Alexander Supartono, a historian of Indonesian art, is the sheer scope of the group’s collectivity: “It infuses their entire lives.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
The ANC is a collective, but the government had made collectivity in this case impossible.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
When applied to cancer cell collectivities, it explains the possible behaviours of tumour cells when competing for an external resource.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
“Andrea Smith allows herself to stand in as the representative of collectivities to which she has demonstrated no accountability,” the letter read.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
Besides, at the moment it is difficult for me at least to share Elon Musk’s confidence in the superior intelligence of either of these august collectivities.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018
The human animal, despite its resilience, craves constancy, and it seeks this constancy through rituals, collectivities and identity.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018
But in order to imagine relations it is necessary to have a conception of collectivities or wholes, and the documents only give isolated elements.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
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