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The bar you lower until two strangers both fit under it.
means A shared trait, interest, or circumstance that connects two or more people or things.
from Built from 'common' — tracing back through Old French 'comun' to Latin 'communis' (shared by all, general), itself likely formed from 'com-' (together) and a root related to 'munis' (performing services, obligated), the same ancestor that gives us 'municipal' and 'immune.' The '-ality' ending is just the usual Latin-flavored suffix turning a quality into a noun — commonality is literally 'the state of being common,' dressed up in formal clothes.
- legal use
- required to certify a class action lawsuit
- math sense
- the shared factor hiding inside different numbers
- small talk fuel
- weather and traffic, humanity's lowest common denominator
- etymology
- from Latin communis, meaning shared by all