communitas

[ kuh-myoo-ni-tahs ]

noun

, Anthropology.

1. the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.

Word History and Origins

Origin of communitas¹

From Latin; community

Example Sentences

Cultural anthropologist Victor Turner might have called it communitas, the spirit of a people in and out of time and space, in the throes of transition.

From Washington Post

I’m deeply heartened, even astonished by the unprecedented rising global solidarity, this communitas, in response to the pandemic, and what it promises we are capable of.

From The Guardian

We could guess as much on general grounds, but the self-dependent position assumed by the 'communitas villanorum' of Brightwaltham is the more interesting, that it finds expression in a formal and recorded agreement.360 The village as a farmer.

From Project Gutenberg

And those drawn to artisanal and agrarian practices as a sustainable alternative to consumerism will find instruction and inspiration in "Communitas," a 1947 blueprint for utopia that Goodman wrote with his brother, Percival.

From Seattle Times

And those drawn to the recent renewal of interest in artisanal and agrarian practices as a sustainable alternative to consumerism will find instruction and inspiration in “Communitas,” a 1947 blueprint for utopia that Mr. Goodman wrote with his brother, Percival.

From New York Times