commonhood

plural commonhoods

1. uncountableThe state or condition of being common; commonness.

   You need to know how to succeed at being common. Commonhood has its perils, you know.

   2012, Max Lucado, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust

2. countableuncountableThat which is common or held in common; community; commonality.

   It includes the commonhood of humanity.

   1926, A Set of Holiday Sermons, page 48

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   Tended by weeping burghers, the once privileged and stately commonhood was banished beyond the gates; its nightly return to its wonted shelter being deemed inconsistent with the dignity of a royal residence.

   1855, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

   In their maps of the ten Plains states, the Poppers identified 109 counties on the road to Buffalo Commonhood.

   2000, Dayton Duncan, Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier

   […] social change has placed children and youth in a situation involving new commonhoods and differences.

   2005, J. Qvortrup, Studies in Modern Childhood, page 23

   The first time I paid the colour, my very first training brew, I finally understood why soldiers taunted each other so little, why among their ranks there was a commonhood, an intimacy that those of us more used to ordering them around than living with them could not possibly understand.

   2015, Adrian Selby, Snakewood

   By establishing genetic information as a collectivizing rather than an individualizing force, a genetic commonhood is created that expresses a universalist body politics.

   2018, Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner, Routledge Handbook of Genomics