commonality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a feature or quality shared by two or more people or things

   A love of music was their strongest commonality.

2. 2
   noun

   the state of having features or interests in common

   The two proposals have enough commonality to be discussed together.

3. 3
   noun

   ordinary people as a social group, especially in historical use

   The new tax angered the commonality as well as the merchants.

From Middle English comunalite, via Old French from Medieval Latin communalitas, based on Latin communis, “common” or “shared.” The historical social sense referred to the body of ordinary people; the modern abstract sense emphasizes shared features.

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