commonhood

English

Etymology

From common +‎ -hood. Compare Middle English communhed, communehede (“commonhood, community”).

Noun

commonhood (countable and uncountable, plural commonhoods)

1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being common; commonness.
   • 2012, Max Lucado, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust:

     You need to know how to succeed at being common. Commonhood has its perils, you know.

2. (countable, uncountable) That which is common or held in common; community; commonality.
   • 1855, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:

     Tended by weeping burghers, the once privileged and stately commonhood was banished beyond the gates; its nightly return to its wonted shelter being deemed inconsistent with the dignity of a royal residence.

   • 1926, A Set of Holiday Sermons, page 48:

     It includes the commonhood of humanity.

   • 2000, Dayton Duncan, Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier:

     In their maps of the ten Plains states, the Poppers identified 109 counties on the road to Buffalo Commonhood.

   • 2005, J. Qvortrup, Studies in Modern Childhood, page 23:

     […] social change has placed children and youth in a situation involving new commonhoods and differences.

   • 2015, Adrian Selby, Snakewood:

     The first time I paid the colour, my very first training brew, I finally understood why soldiers taunted each other so little, why among their ranks there was a commonhood, an intimacy that those of us more used to ordering them around than living with them could not possibly understand.

   • 2018, Sahra Gibbon, ‎Barbara Prainsack, ‎Stephen Hilgartner, Routledge Handbook of Genomics:

     By establishing genetic information as a collectivizing rather than an individualizing force, a genetic commonhood is created that expresses a universalist body politics.

See also

• commonship