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communitates

communitates is the plural of communitas.

Meaning of communitas

Noun

communitas (countable and uncountable, plural communitates)

  1. An unstructured community of common experience.
    • Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.2012, Helena Bassil-Morozow, The Trickster in Contemporary Film, →ISBN, pages 17–18
  2. The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
    • A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.1986, Victor W. Turner, The Anthropology of Experience, University of Illinois Press, page 43

Questions about communitates

What is communitates the plural of?
Communitates is the plural of communitas.

Words near communitates in the dictionary

  1. communitarianisms
  2. communitarianist
  3. communitarianists
  4. communitarians
  5. communitas
  6. communitates
  7. communitie
  8. communities
  9. communities of practice
  10. communitive
  11. communitization

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