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Collectivity   Listen
noun
Collectivity  n.  
1.
Quality or state of being collective.
2.
The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state. "The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition."
3.
(Polit. Econ.) Collectivism.





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"Collectivity" Quotes from Famous Books



... truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted. If theological ideas should do this, if the notion of God, in particular, should prove to do it, how could pragmatism possibly deny God's existence? She could see ...
— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James
... takes charge of the physical and moral education of abandoned children. From that moment they will be designated only by the term of orphans. No other designation shall be allowed." Quite convenient for the men, who, thereby, shifted the obligation of the individual upon the collectivity, to the end of escaping exposure before the public and their wives. In all the provinces of the land, orphan and foundling asylums were set up. The number of orphans and foundlings ran up, in 1893, to 130,945, of which it was ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel


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