Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of community; absence of common origin or qualities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack of
common possessions , properties, orrelationship .
Etymologies
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dis- + community
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Examples
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Thus, community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity in embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent, for in one of two groups the developmental stages may have been suppressed, or may have been so greatly modified through adaptation to new habits of life, as to be no longer recognisable.
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