culturality

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noun

The quality of being cultural.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounculturality (countable and uncountable, plural culturalities)

plural culturalities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being cultural.

    To the extent that the human form of life is a social one, then, it tends to constitute forms of likeness that issue in culturality.

    2017 November 7, Whitney Davis, A General Theory of Visual Culture, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 337
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    Just as culture is not simply rooted in the logic of the state, culturalities have a much broader basis—including family, ethnic, global cultural flows, and discourses about popular and high culture.

    2013 June 6, Tod Jones, Culture, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State: Cultural Policy across the Twentieth Century to the Reform Era, BRILL, →ISBN, page 22

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  3. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  4. Latincolō
  5. Latincultūra
  6. Middle Frenchculture
  7. Englishculture
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  10. Englishcultural
  11. Englishculturality

From cultural + -ity.

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Translations

Finnish kulttuurillisuus
  • kulttuurillisuusTranslations
German Kulturalität
  • KulturalitätTranslations
Hindi सांस्कृतिकता
  • सांस्कृतिकता (sānskŕtiktā)Translations
Romanian culturalitate
  • culturalitateTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

culturality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culturality

MLA

“culturality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culturality. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “culturality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culturality.

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