Meanings
nouncommunality (countable and uncountable, plural communalities)
plural communalities
- countableuncountableThe condition of being communal.
There may have been a vague communality of purpose, but we were never a team.
1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 10 - countableuncountableThe extent to which something is communal.
- countableuncountablemathematicsA measure of variance in factor analysis.
Origin
From communal + -ity; compare earlier commonalty, commonality.
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communality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communality
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