communitas

American  

[kuh-myoo-ni-tahs] / kəˈmyu nɪˌtɑs /

noun

Anthropology.

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

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Etymology

Origin of communitas

From Latin; community

Example Sentences

Cultural anthropologist Victor Turner might have called it communitas, the spirit of a people in and out of time and space, in the throes of transition.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

Says Smithsonian Institution Folklorist Jack Santino: "Dressing up and switching personal identity is part of a need for communitas, an exultant, spontaneous celebration of role reversal in society."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the charter of 1254, while there is mention of a communitas capable of making a compact with the bishop, there is nothing said of any trade or craft gilds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Verum aucti paullatim, in amplitudinem gentis solid� concesserunt & nomen: villasque inhabitantes nulla murorum firmitudine communitas & legibus suis uti permissi, religionis respectu sunt honorati.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

Sometimes the word "communitas" is found; but it always means "communitas baronagii."

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John by Hume, David