tribality

English

Etymology

tribal +‎ -ity or tribe +‎ -ality

Noun

tribality (countable and uncountable, plural tribalities)

  1. The quality of being tribal.
    • 1994, Trout Gallery, Peter M. Lukehart, Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba, Ahistorical Sculpture of West Africa, page 5:
      Noted Africanist, William Fagg, consistently stresses the tribality of sub-Saharan art and, on one occasion, he even invoked it to repudiate the incipient emergence of the contemporary art movement on the African continent.
  2. A tribal group; a tribe.
    tribalities of central Asia
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