different between community vs commonality

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin comm?nit?s (“community; public spirit”), from comm?nis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -it?s (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh?ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)). Comm?nis is derived from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (from cum (“with”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + m?nus (“employment, office, service; burden, duty, obligation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange”)). Doublet of communitas.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??mju?n?ti/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: k?-myo?o?n?-ti, IPA^(key): /k(?)?mjun?ti/, [k(?)?mjun??i]
• Hyphenation: com?mun?i?ty

Noun

community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)

1. (countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
2. (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
3. (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
4. (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
5. (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
6. (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
7. (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
8. (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
9. (Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.

Alternative forms

• communitie (obsolete)

Antonyms

• anticommunity
• noncommunity

Hyponyms

• subcommunity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• community at OneLook Dictionary Search
• community in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "community" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 75.
• community in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• community on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• community (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Community (Wales) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Variant form of commonalty.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m??nal?ti/

Noun

commonality (countable and uncountable, plural commonalities)

1. The common people; the commonalty
2. The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.
   • 1969, "Second life for war widows", Time, 25 Jun 1969:

     Zunin sold the idea to his military superiors in the fearful jargon of his profession: "In a situation where commonality of loss of the husband is present, the group can be exceedingly supportive."

3. Such a shared attribute or characteristic
4. (telecommunications) A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common; (b) having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; (c) applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.
   • 2003, NASA, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Transcript, transcript of radio communication,

     KLING: FYI I've just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle, hydraulic return temperatures. (pause) Two of them on system one and one in each of systems 2 and 3.

     CAIN: Four hyd return temps?

     KLING: To the left outboard and left inboard elevons.

     CAIN: OK, is there anything common to them, DSC or MDM or anything? I mean, you're telling me you lost them all at exactly the same time?

     KLING: No, not exactly. They were within probably four or five seconds of each other.

     CAIN: OK, where are those? Where is that instrumentation located?

     KLING: All four of them are located in the aft part of the left wing, right in front of the elevons, elevon actuators. And there is no commonality.

     CAIN: No commonality.

     (long pause)

Synonyms

• (shared characteristic): commonship

Translations

References

• (telecommunication)Federal Standard 1037C
• (telecommunication)MIL-STD-188

Anagrams

• climatonomy