The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collectivity \Col`lec*tiv"i*ty\, n.
Quality or state of being collective.
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The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.
The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition.
--W. D. Howells. (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being collective 2 (context countable English) A body of people considered as a whole
Usage examples of "collectivity".
In the past, most of these universal concerns have had to be left to the competitive enterprise of profit-seeking individuals because there were as yet no collectivities organized to the pitch of ability needed to develop and control these concerns, but surely nobody in his senses believes that the supply and distribution of staple commodities about the earth by irresponsible persons and companies working entirely for monetary gain is the best possible method from the point of view of the race as a whole.
The development both of extensive proprietary companies and of government departments with economic functions has been a matter of the last few centuries, the development, that is to say, of communal, more or less impersonal ownership, and it is only through these developments that the idea of organized collectivity of proprietorship has become credible.