Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.

    German, Gemeinsamkeit

    о́бщностьóbščnostʹ, унифицированностьunificirovannostʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)Such a shared attribute or characteristic

    Gemeinsamkeit

  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

    унифицированностьunificirovannostʹ, совмести́мостьsovmestímostʹ

  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The common people; the commonalty.

    sharing of common attributes

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
joint possession of a set of characteristics:
telecom: property of having these characteristics:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
joint possession of a set of characteristics:

Origin

From common + -ality. Inherited from Middle English comunalite, remodelling of comunalte

From common + -ality.

Inherited from Middle English comunalite, remodelling of comunalte (modern English commonalty) as if from a putative Medieval Latin *commūnālitās.

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Forms

plural: commonalities
Singularcommonality
Pluralcommonalities

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
shared characteristic:commonship
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcommon

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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