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Dictionary: com·mon·al·i·ty   (kŏm'ə-năl'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ties.
    1. The possession, along with another or others, of a certain attribute or set of attributes: a political movement's commonality of purpose.
    2. A shared feature or attribute.
  1. See commonalty (sense 1).

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Thesaurus: commonality
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noun

    The common people: common (used in plural), commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck, third estate. See over/under.

Military Dictionary: commonality
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(DOD) A quality that applies to materiel or systems: a. possessing like and interchangeable characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained, by personnel trained on the others without additional specialized training; b. having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; and c. applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank
  Synonyms: commonalty, commons

Meaning #2: sharing of common attributes
  Synonym: commonness
  Antonym: individuality (meaning #1)


Translations: Commonality
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - folk i almindelighed, almindelige mennesker

Nederlands (Dutch)
het gemeen hebben, alledaagse gebeurtenis, het gewone volk, de mensheid, rechtspersoon

Français (French)
n. - standardisation, composants communs à

Deutsch (German)
n. - das gemeine Volk, Gewöhnlichkeit, Gemeinsamkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κοινή ιδιότητα, συνηθισμένο γεγονός

Italiano (Italian)
associazione, genere umano

Português (Portuguese)
n. - interesses (m pl) comuns

Русский (Russian)
сообщество, народ

Español (Spanish)
n. - vulgo, pueblo, estado común

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gemensamhet, vanlighet

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
公共, 平民

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 公共, 平民

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 일반시민

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 共通, 普通

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) العاميه, الخصائص المشتركه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אירוע שכיח‬


 
 

 

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