Meanings
nountribality (countable and uncountable, plural tribalities)
plural tribalities
- countableuncountableThe quality of being tribal.
Noted Africanist, William Fagg, consistently stresses the tribality of sub-Saharan art and, on one occasion, he even invoked it to repudiate the incipient emergence of the contemporary art movement on the African continent.
1994, Trout Gallery, Peter M. Lukehart, Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba, Ahistorical Sculpture of West Africa, page 5
Origin
From tribal + -ity or tribe + -ality.
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tribality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tribality
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