Communality
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Communality generally means a sense of shared connection, ownership, or collective identity within a group.
Depending on context, it can mean:
- Everyday use: The feeling of belonging, togetherness, or shared experience among people.
- Sociology / anthropology: Social bonds formed through shared values, space, practices, or goals.
- Psychology / statistics (factor analysis): The proportion of a variable’s variance explained by common factors shared with other variables.