Meaning & use
Communality
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The state of being shared, held, or experienced in common by members of a group; a sense of community.
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The festival was designed to foster a sense of communality among neighbors.
Statisticians also use 'communality' to describe the proportion of variance a variable shares with others in factor analysis.
A note on using this word
Outside everyday speech, 'communality' has a precise technical meaning in statistics, referring to shared variance among variables in factor analysis.
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