Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being collective.
- noun The people considered as a body or whole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
collectiveness. J. Morley . - noun The whole collectively considered; the mass.
- noun Specifically The people of a commune or state taken collectively; the people at large; the citizens as a whole.
- noun Collectivism; especially, the ownership on the part of the state or the people at large of all means of production, especially of the soil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being collective.
- noun The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.
- noun (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
collective - noun countable A body of people considered as a whole
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Examples
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Even if individual voters are not offered a choice at the moment of the election, the collectivity is deciding among alternatives.
What can we expect of democracy? Steven E. Levingston 2010
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We all need to make three types of human connection, they say: with intimate or romantic partners, with close friends and with our "collectivity" -- the community or nation as a whole.
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The movement of the collectivity is a largely subconscious mass-movement with historical ups and downs.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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The movement of the collectivity is a largely subconscious mass-movement with historical ups and downs.
Individualism, redefined, as a powerful change agent Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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The crash of these technology-based social networks ostensibly shows an active rather than passive collectivity, meaning rather than experiencing a historical moment together via the exact same channels (limited to a few mass media networks), people wanted to reach out and create their own moment, their own reportage and rapport; however, this crash of systems also points to some intense displays of cultural capital, something a lot of these social networks are built upon.
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Meanwhile, Guadalupe, Martinique and French Guiana, which are oversea departments of France, are scheduled to have a referendum in January on whether to join the northern half of St. Martin and the tiny island of St. Barth's in getting full "collectivity" status, which means that they too can get aid from the Motherland and not have to give anything back in the way of taxes.
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As the best example of what her divine Son wills for us as individuals within that collectivity which is the Church, she is the efficacious sign thereof.
Archive 2005-07-01 Mike L 2005
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As the best example of what her divine Son wills for us as individuals within that collectivity which is the Church, she is the efficacious sign thereof.
The project continued Mike L 2005
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The issue is that they make exceptions to that principle in the case of certain arbitrary claims of political authority; or that they try to rationalize coercion by saying that some kind of collectivity makes it not really coercive - didn't we agree to that tax increase?, etc.
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The issue is that they make exceptions to that principle in the case of certain arbitrary claims of political authority; or that they try to rationalize coercion by saying that some kind of collectivity makes it not really coercive — didn’t we agree to that tax increase?
Why should natural lawyers care about teaching freed-market economics? 2009
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