How to Use collectivity in a Sentence

collectivity

noun
  • Each team needed to look beyond its own goals and concerns and see its work as part of the larger mission of the collectivity.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
  • There's been no official word as to whether the overseas collectivity of France will be ready for cruise tourists by then.
    — Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • And hopefully that feeling will be reignited in that sense of purpose and collectivity.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Brewer mixes the guardians’ yeast, wasp venom and fungi with honey as an elixir of collectivity.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Moments of individual skill are still in abundance but there is not enough collectivity.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
  • The film captures the powerful spirit of activism and collectivity that make the fandom a symbol of hope and unity.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Sint Maarten shares an island with the French collectivity of Saint-Martin.
    — CNN, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In part, the problem is Peck’s emphasis on friendly collectivity.
    — Jennifer Homans, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Trust is also threatened by mass personalization, because it is only formed in collectivity.
    — Hossein Derakhshan, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • Forming such a collectivity is never easy (Kirby’s groups were full of internal strife) but always necessary.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Though the theme of war is ever-present in the film, the overall effect is something more akin to possibility—the potential power of collectivity and youth culture.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The collectivity is the point, Kunzru said, with no individual event being more important than any other.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Lost in the collectivity of the numbers is the individuality of the victims and families.
    — Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Emergency planners should encourage collectivity, not fear it.
    — John Drury, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2010
  • The result is a somatic landscape that seeks to cultivate a sense of collectivity during a distressingly isolating and disjointed time.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Hayakawa wants to remind us of our humanity, our need for collectivity and community, and to stop us from allowing our political leaders to reduce us to a number on a spreadsheet.
    — Vulture, 20 May 2022
  • But what local powers must be surrendered to the insurgent American collectivity?
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • This collectivity may in fact make alleviating anxiety easier, since the common experience can be used as a way for employees to come together to help each other.
    — Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Its success is grounded in humanity, collectivity, and agility that enables adaptation.
    — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Great podcasts mirror consciousness raising groups' relatively low barrier to entry, a homegrown feel, and a quiet feeling of collectivity.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Love Island's contradictory appeals are its escapism and its collectivity.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 6 July 2018
  • My working theory is that viewers have been starved for the collectivity and community of the festival, and are eager to once again feel like a participant in an experience rather than a solo culture fan.
    — Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • These Prometheans have no vision for collectivity, solidarity, or democracy.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The entirety of the surfing competition will take place in Tahiti, the largest island in the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia.
    — Sam Joseph, CNN, 22 July 2024
  • Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This tension lies in the relationship of the individual artist’s innovation to collectivity and tradition.
    — Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
  • This kind of local collectivity feels increasingly hard to find — steadily replaced, in media, by national coverage of national controversies.
    — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • While Documenta Fifteen’s obsession with collectivity can feel, at times, dogmatic and overly repetitive, the show also contains a great deal of magic.
    — Cassidy George, Vogue, 22 June 2022
  • Everything afterward, from the cinematic grammar breaking of Speed Racer to the radical collectivity of Sense8 can be seen as more steps along that road.
    — Emily Yoshida, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • As contemporary land-ownership systems add pressure to oral tradition, new models of global collectivity and solidarity must be realized.
    — Taeya Boi-Doku, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2025

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