commonhood
nounEtymology From common + -hood. Compare Middle English communhed, communehede (“commonhood, community”).
1
The state or condition of being common; commonness.
- You need to know how to succeed at being common. Commonhood has its perils, you know.2012, Max Lucado, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust:
2
That which is common or held in common; community; commonality.
- Tended by weeping burghers, the once privileged and stately commonhood was banished beyond the gates; its nightly return to its wonted shelter being deemed inconsistent with the dignity of a royal residence.1855, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:
- It includes the commonhood of humanity.1926, A Set of Holiday Sermons, page 48:
4 more examples
- In their maps of the ten Plains states, the Poppers identified 109 counties on the road to Buffalo Commonhood.2000, Dayton Duncan, Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier:
- […] social change has placed children and youth in a situation involving new commonhoods and differences.2005, J. Qvortrup, Studies in Modern Childhood, page 23:
- The first time I paid the colour, my very first training brew, I finally understood why soldiers taunted each other so little, why among their ranks there was a commonhood, an intimacy that those of us more used to ordering them around than living with them could not possibly understand.2015, Adrian Selby, Snakewood:
- By establishing genetic information as a collectivizing rather than an individualizing force, a genetic commonhood is created that expresses a universalist body politics.2018, Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner, Routledge Handbook of Genomics:
- Related terms
- commonship