togetherdom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From together +‎ -dom.

Noun[edit]

togetherdom (uncountable)

  1. The condition, sphere, or state of being together; togethership.
    • 1960, The Massachusetts Review, volume 2, page 281:
      Not the wounds, not the danger, not the dirt, the boredom, the fear, the fatigue, the sight of the dead, and not the longing for home — I am an orphan, in any case — but the beastly togetherdom with hundreds and thousands of men.
    • 1970, Elton Edward Smith, Louis MacNeice:
      The poet plays with the thought that the net of individualism too much divides, but that, if the dividing strings should break, the two personalities would merge only " in lost togetherdom."

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