communitas

[ kuh-myoo-ni-tahs ]

/ kəˈmyu nɪˌtɑs /

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noun Anthropology.

the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.

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Origin of communitas

From Latin; see origin at community

Communitas is defined as an experience of intense shared humanity that transcends social structure.
VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence|Hana Kiros|August 6, 2022|MIT Technology Review
It does not even mean that each burgess holds immediately of the king, the communitas intervening as farmer of the kings rents.
Domesday Book and Beyond|Frederic William Maitland
Ita fit, ut vincat cognitionis studium consociatio hominum atque communitas.
De Officiis|Marcus Tullius Cicero
The title of Communitas Venetiarum, long disused in actual practice, was formally changed to the Signoria.
Venice and its Story|Thomas Okey

Inter amicos omnium rerum communitas—Among friends all things are common.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
Ergo communitas qudam et plurimorum inter se differentium similitudo notio est; cujus notionis aliud genus est, aliud forma.
Aristotle|George Grote