communality
Americannoun
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the state or condition of being communal.
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a feeling or spirit of cooperation and belonging arising from common interests and goals.
Etymology
Origin of communality
Example Sentences
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There was, however, one particularly fascinating area of communality.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025
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 • Apr. 11, 2021
That is "perhaps because it depicts the very thing we are currently unable to share: the painting resonates with movement and communality, and embodies the deeply social nature of humans," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2021
If Chacha Jee was modern enough to have shunned those older, tormented ways of being, he was still hospitable in a way that only someone brought up in the communality of the village could be.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2020
Platon Karatayev, the typical "Russian soul" in Tolstoy's "War and Peace", extols, for pages at a time, the virtues of communality and disparages the individual - this otherwise useless part of the greater whole.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
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