commonalties

Noun

commonalty (countable and uncountable, plural commonalties)

1. The common people; the commonality.
   • The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.1759, David Hume, “[Henry VIII.] Chapter XXXII.”, in The History of England, under the House of Tudor. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 239
2. A group of things having similar characteristics.
3. A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
   • […] and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and after the commonalty cried at once: Sir Launcelot hath won the field whosoever say nay.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 35”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book 1, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer...
4. The state or quality of having things in common.
   • Or is there some way in which the product of that solitude—writing—may none the less be profoundly social, rejoining the commonalty of society, and through its indirections and specificities being the most authentic contribution the writer can offer?1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, New York: Knopf, page 8
5. A shared feature.
   • Observant visitors to any prison will quickly recognize commonalties in its inmate population. Not only do shared traits exist among the inmate population of any particular institution (intra-prison commonalties) but commonalties also exist among inmates nationwide (inter-prison commonalties).2007, Curt R. Blakely, chapter 2, in Prisons, Penology and Penal Reform: An Introduction to Institutional Specialization, New York: Peter Lang, page 29