\Col`lec*tiv"i*ty\, n.
1. Quality or state of being collective.
2. 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. --W. D.
                                               Howells.
3. (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism.