Collective
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
Tending to collect; forming a collection.
Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
A collective noun or name.
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Collective Quotations
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn Manson
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Vladimir Lenin
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman
Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
Mike Krzyzewski
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Neale Donald Walsch
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
David Icke
Collective Translations
collective in Dutch is gemeenschappelijk, collectief
collective in French is collectif
collective in German is Kollektiv, Verbands
collective in Italian is in comune
collective in Portuguese is coletivo
collective in Spanish is colectividad
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