communitas

noun

1. An unstructured community of common experience.

   countable, uncountable

   Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.

2. The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.

   countable, uncountable

   A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from Latin commūnitās. Doublet of community.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry communitas (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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