communality

English

Etymology

From communal +‎ -ity; compare earlier commonalty, commonality.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkɒmjʊˈnalɪti/, /ˌkɒmjʊˈnaləti/, /ˌkɒmjəˈnalɪti/, /ˌkɒmjəˈnaləti/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌkɑmjuˈnæləti/, /ˌkɑmjəˈnæləti/

Noun

communality (countable and uncountable, plural communalities)

  1. The condition of being communal.
    • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 10:
      There may have been a vague communality of purpose, but we were never a team.
  2. The extent to which something is communal.
  3. (mathematics) A measure of variance in factor analysis.

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