communality

[kom-yuh-nal-i-tee]

noun

1. the state or condition of being communal.

2. a feeling or spirit of cooperation and belonging arising from common interests and goals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of communality¹

First recorded in 1900–05; communal + -ity

Example Sentences

There was, however, one particularly fascinating area of communality.

From Los Angeles Times

The Sun Ra Arkestra conjures a loose communality, the feeling of mavericks gathering for a shared purpose.

From New York Times

The mythos of “the first” obscures so much of the communality of Hansberry’s thinking.

From New York Times

One was figuring out how to balance Islam’s call for people to pray shoulder to shoulder, foot to foot — to emphasize communality — with the need to socially distance.

From Washington Post

Here is less of the exhilaration of cruising, of anonymity, of imagined utopias, and more of the headache that is real communality, the honorable, bankrupting work of loyalty and endurance, of shoring up old lovers, even that roommate who is a “flaming piece of human garbage.”

From New York Times