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Commonalty vs Populace - What's the difference?

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Commonalty is a related term of populace.


As nouns the difference between commonalty and populace

is that commonalty is (chiefly|in the plural) the common people; the commonality while populace is the common people of a nation.

commonalty

English

Noun

(commonalties)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) The common people; the commonality
  • A group of things having similar characteristics
  • A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

    • populace

    English

    Noun

  • The common people of a nation.
  • * The populace despised their ignorant leader.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • The inhabitants of a nation.

    • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse populace' (a noun) with ' populous (an adjective).

    Synonyms

    * (common people of a nation) common people, hoi polloi, masses, people, rabble, riff-raff * (inhabitants of a nation) inhabitants, population