commonality

The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.

Noun

  1. The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.
    • 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." - 25 June 1969,...
  2. Such a shared attribute or characteristic
  3. 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....

Origin

From common + -ality.

Forms

commonalities

Synonyms

commonship

Antonyms

noncommonality

Noun countable, obsolete

  1. The common people; the commonalty.

Origin

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

Forms

commonalities