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commonality

[ kom-uh-nal-i-tee ]

noun

, plural com·mon·al·i·ties.
  1. a sharing of features or characteristics in common; possession or manifestation of common attributes.
  2. a feature or characteristic held in common:

    Historians perceive commonalities of behavior in many eras.



commonality

/ ˌkɒməˈnælɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the fact of being common to more than one individual; commonness
  2. another word for commonalty


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Word History and Origins

Origin of commonality1

1350–1400; Middle English; partial Latinization of commonalty, on basis of presumed Latin *commūnālitās ( -ity )

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Example Sentences

Behind the scenes, the shows share many more points of commonality.

The tone of the original series is vastly different, with few points of commonality save for the talking dog.

Now, because of the commonality of the problem, he says, celebrities “are more apt to come forward and report these cases.”

It can show stature and authority and also exude commonality.

Men may be blind as bats—they usually are; and our Brown is worse than the commonality.

Seignory pierces through sacerdotalism; the commonality, through seignory.

And a death so unlike that usually meted out to criminals, as he himself to the commonality of men.

There is an old proverb of our country—‘Better the head of the commonality than the tail of the gentry.’

This great body of the commonality was to a remarkable degree still very purely Punic even in late Roman times.

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