COMMONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commonality mean? 

• COMMONALITY (noun)
  The noun COMMONALITY has 2 senses:

1. a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

2. sharing of common attributes

  Familiarity information: COMMONALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

commonality; commonalty; commons

Hypernyms ("commonality" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Derivation:

common (of or associated with the great masses of people)

common (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sharing of common attributes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

commonality; commonness

Hypernyms ("commonality" is a kind of...):

generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)

Attribute:

common (belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commonality"):

solidarity (a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group)

Antonym:

individuality (the quality of being individual)

Derivation:

common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)

common (belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public)

common (commonly encountered)

common (to be expected; standard)

common (common to or shared by two or more parties)

 Context examples 

Among other commonalities, both cell types produce the protein GLT-1, the mammal version of which is responsible for clearing the chemical glutamate away from synapses.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

In addition, previous studies had detailed similarities between the Arc protein and proteins found in certain viruses like HIV, but it was unclear how those commonalities influenced the behavior of the Arc protein.

(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)

When the team compared the new SOFIA data with previous studies of comets, they found a surprising commonality.

(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)

Ceres shares many commonalities with meteorites rich in water and organics — in particular, a meteorite group called carbonaceous chondrites.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)