Commonality
Commonality refers to the quality or state of sharing features, attributes, or experiences among two or more entities. It denotes a basis of overlap that can support identification, comparison, or connection, without implying that the entities are identical. Commonality can be qualitative, such as shared values or goals, or quantitative, such as a measurable proportion of overlapping properties.
In social and cultural contexts, commonality is often invoked to describe what groups share—rituals, language, beliefs,
In science and philosophy, commonality is a broad term for what is shared among objects, processes, or
In statistics, the related term communality is used to describe the portion of a variable's variance explained