Communitas
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Communitas is a noun meaning (sociology) An unstructured community of common experience.
Meaning
(sociology) An unstructured community of common experience.
More Meanings
- (sociology) The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
Example Sentences
The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation.
A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.
Liminality, in other words, engenders communitas by levelling social distinctions while at the same time destabilizing normative structures and inspiring criticism.
Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.
Word Forms
- communitates
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include communality, commune, community, communiversity, commonalty, pseudocommunity.
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