as in similarity
a point which two or more things share in common
one commonality between the two very different women is their passion for charity work
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of commonality
But there are two commonalities.
—
Jan Mischke, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
Colton police are reviewing new leads in the investigation surrounding a 4-year-old boy who died 15 years ago and the connection to a small local church, a commonality among a series of recent investigations.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
But in the meanwhile, Barnes found the occurrence sweet, with a poignant thread of commonality to his own life as a gay man.
—Mikelle Street, Them., 4 Dec. 2025
Plaintiffs thus satisfy the commonality requirement.
—New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for commonality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commonality
Noun
-
Mpro, an enzyme that allows SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in host cells, holds structural similarities.—
-
Researchers began to explore representational similarity among AI models with this approach in the mid-2010s and found that different models’ representations of the same concepts were often similar, though far from identical.—
Noun
-
Watching it back, the resemblance to her childhood home videos felt uncanny.—
-
Most strikingly, some are from the near future, and have an uncanny resemblance to premonitions.—
Cite this Entry
“Commonality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonality. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
