The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state. "The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition."
... traits of character, by favoring the survival of those ethnic elements which are most richly endowed in these respects. At the same time the earlier—acquired, more generic habits of the race have never ceased to have some usefulness for the purpose of the life of the collectivity and have never fallen into definitive abeyance. It may be worth while to point out that the dolicho-blond type of European man seems to owe much of its dominating influence and its masterful position in the recent culture to its possessing the characteristics of predatory man in ... — The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen
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