collectivity Hear it!

collectivity Definition

col·lec·tiv·ity (käl′ek tivə tē)

noun

  1. the quality or state of being collective
  2. a collective whole
  3. the people as a whole

collectivity Usage Examples

Preposition: of

people: I would argue that questions of social justice always and inevitably concern the lives and hopes of groups, collectivities of people.

Adjective modifier

  • human: I am inclined to ` human collectivities ' precisely to foreground the human in them.
  • national: Of considerable importance is the relationship between the present of a national collectivity and its past.
  • social: We argued that it is analytically misleading to treat consensus as a potentially measurable attribute of social collectivities.
  • local: For the local collectivities and their groupings, these accounts are issued according to the term provided in Article 108 of the decree no.
  • such: There is a continuity to such collectivities across generations.
  • aggregate: An aggregate collectivity, Peter French writes, is " merely a collection of people " ( French 1984, p. 5 ).