discommunity

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ community

Noun

discommunity (uncountable)

1. A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.
   • 1866, Charles Darwin, “Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 532:

     Thus, community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity in embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discommunity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)