communitas

[ kuh-myoo-ni-tahs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Anthropology.

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

From Latin; community

Communitas is defined as an experience of intense shared humanity that transcends social structure.

It does not even mean that each burgess holds immediately of the king, the communitas intervening as farmer of the kings rents.

Ita fit, ut vincat cognitionis studium consociatio hominum atque communitas.

The title of Communitas Venetiarum, long disused in actual practice, was formally changed to the Signoria.

Inter amicos omnium rerum communitas—Among friends all things are common.

Ergo communitas qudam et plurimorum inter se differentium similitudo notio est; cujus notionis aliud genus est, aliud forma.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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