collegialities

Noun

collegiality (countable and uncountable, plural collegialities)

1. collegial atmosphere; working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner
   • To what extent does collegiality still exist in the management here?2003, Nigel Bennett, Megan Crawford, Marion Cartwright, Effective Educational Leadership, SAGE, →ISBN, page 248
2. power and authority that is shared among peers, especially the sharing of collegiate power among Roman Catholic bishops.
   • But collegiality does refer to a kind of sharing of authority between Rome and all the other local churches. Each bishop represents his own local church, and the pope represents the local church of Rome which, by tradition, exercises a primacy of love over all the other local churches and has...2002, Maureen Sullivan, 101 Questions and Answers on Vatican II, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 45