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tribality

tribality noun: the quality of being tribal.

Noun

tribality (countable and uncountable, plural tribalities)

  1. The quality of being tribal.
    • Noted Africanist, William Fagg, consistently stresses the tribality of sub-Saharan art and, on one occasion, he even invoked it to repudiate the incipient emergence of the contemporary art movement on the African continent.1994, Trout Gallery, Peter M. Lukehart, Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba, Ahistorical Sculpture of West Africa, page 5
  2. A tribal group; a tribe.
    • tribalities of central Asia

Forms of tribality

pluraltribalities

Origin of tribality

From tribal + -ity or tribe + -ality.

Questions about tribality

What does tribality mean?
Tribality means the quality of being tribal.
What part of speech is tribality?
Tribality is a noun.
What is the plural of tribality?
The plural of tribality is tribalities.

Words near tribality in the dictionary

  1. tribalist
  2. tribalistic
  3. tribalistically
  4. tribalists
  5. tribalities
  6. tribality
  7. tribalization
  8. tribalize
  9. tribalized
  10. tribalizes
  11. tribalizing

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