communitas
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates."
- "A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas."
- "The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation."
- "Their focus is on group bonding, and the euphoric, almost transcendental experience of becoming one with the music and the crowd (which sounds like a version of what the anthropologist Victor Turner called ‘communitas’—an intense, intimate, liberating kind of group bonding, experienced only in ‘liminal’ states)."
- "Liminality, in other words, engenders communitas by levelling social distinctions while at the same time destabilizing normative structures and inspiring criticism."