Learn English – a single word for a “shared experience”

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I'm talking about a large group experience. Depression for example is felt by millions, it's a shared experience that most of us can understand, but I'd like one word to describe the understanding we can feel for what ever the shared experience is because we've all experienced it. Empathetic, prevalent, pervasive, rampant is not really what I'm thinking.

Best Answer

I think that it depends on how grand you'd like to go, but I am sort of partial to universality.