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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commonality
noun
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▪ All Great Groups have other commonalities.
▪ Although different installers are required for each platform, there is considerable commonality of code between the installers, observes Praxis.
▪ And understanding the values of self-expression and commonality are what talking well is about.
▪ Differences are real, of course, but so are various kinds of commonality and interrelatedness.
▪ Not surprisingly machinery manufacturers aim for commonality of parts.
▪ That drive for commonality took the zing out of the creative process and seriously dampened the competition of ideas.
▪ The sense definition with the highest commonality is the one chosen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
commonality

commonalty \com"mon*al*ty\, commonality \com`mon*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Commonalties. [OF. communalt['e]; F. communaut['e], fr. communal. See Communal.]

  1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

    The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees.
    --Blackstone.

    The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only.
    --Landon.

  2. The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.]
    --Hooker.

commonality

commonality \com`mon*al"i*ty\ n.

  1. the sharing of common attributes.

    Syn: commonness.

  2. a characteristic held in common; a common feature.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commonality

late 14c., "a community," from common (adj.), as if from Latin *communalitas. A respelling of commonalty (late 13c.). Meaning "the common people" is attested from 1580s; that of "state or quality of being shared" is from 1954.

Wiktionary
commonality

n. 1 The common people; the commonalty 2 The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics. 3 Such a shared attribute or characteristic 4 (context telecommunication English) A quality that applies to materiel or systems:

  1. possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common;

  2. having interchangeable repair parts and/or components;

  3. applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.

WordNet
commonality
  1. n. class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank [syn: commonalty, commons]

  2. sharing of common attributes [syn: commonness] [ant: individuality]

Wikipedia
Commonality (album)

Commonality was the second album released by Jeff Coffin, released in 1999. This album was the first and, so far, only album released by Coffin as a solo artist. His previous album being under the name Jeff Coffin Ensemble and subsequent albums recorded and released by the Jeff Coffin Mu'tet.

Usage examples of "commonality".

Besides that, a lot of colonial sorcerers picked up on their lore, so the American version of sorcery has a lot of commonalities with Amerind magic.

There was no way for tribal social organization to move beyond isolationism without finding a source of commonalities beyond kinship, and this the mythic motifs provided.

The Halstaynian version of the multifield packet was a cumbersome object, nearly two cubic inches in volume and about sixty years out-of-date by Commonality standards.

Is this evidence of some contact or commonality between the two civilizations, or should we expect occasional such coincidences between two wholly unrelated languages merely by chance?

The universalistic world interpretations of the great founders of religions and of the great philosophers grounded a commonality of conviction mediated through a teaching tradition and permitting only abstract objects of identification.

She had seen this sky all her life and used that commonality to recall another place.

Hlil, Ras, and unscarred Taz, dazed and frightened to be dragged into commonality with kel'anthein.

But there was commonality linking Thrush to all of the casements, and the manner of that connection had so far eluded her.

We do tend to lag behind Commonality and Federation companies at times, with them always scrambling for some minor competitive advantage.

Look, Delton, are all the adults of the Primgran Commonality and the Lontastan Federation sane?

It's not even trying to keep abreast, economically and technologically, with the Commonality and the Federation, and is falling farther behind every decade.

The only commonality among the four is that they are all Republicans born south of the Mason-Dixon line.

It looks for commonalities rather than examining it at the micro level.

He knew all the grandeurs and pettinesses of a gurgling civilization, but he didn't know this commonality, this "link" his own kind talked about.

You see, Ezzy, the econo-war with the Primgranese Commonality has lasted for centuries, but almost always the fighting has adhered strictly to a set of unwritten rules which keeps the damage to both sides down to an acceptable level.