communitas
[kuh-myoo-ni-tahs]
- 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
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Examples from the Web for communitas
Historical Examples
Ergo communitas qudam et plurimorum inter se differentium similitudo notio est; cujus notionis aliud genus est, aliud forma.
AristotleGeorge Grote
The title of Communitas Venetiarum, long disused in actual practice, was formally changed to the Signoria.
Venice and its StoryThomas Okey
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 BeyondFrederic William Maitland