discommunity

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noun

A lack of community (common possessions, properties, togetherness or relationship).

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Meanings

noundiscommunity (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA lack of community (common possessions, properties, togetherness or relationship).

    Thus, community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity in embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent, […]

    1866, Charles Darwin, “Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 532

Origin

From dis- + community.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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