The English word community carries affective overtones other languages’ equivalents lack.

Evidence

When I expressed my reservations about the title, L’imaginaire nationale, he replied that the French language has no equivalent to the English ‘community,’ with its overtones of social warmth and solidarity. ‘Communauté’ (as in Communauté Européenne) has an unavoidably cold, bureaucratic feel to it. (Marco d’Eramo later laughingly wrote to me that the Italian ‘comunità’ commonly means a drug-addicts’ halfway house.) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 801

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the toolkit concept of imagined community itself — the term’s resonance in English is part of why Anderson’s title travels awkwardly; relevant background for the Islamophobia readings that inherit this vocabulary. — connects to: Many languages lack a direct equivalent of the English word trust; Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them; Leaving key emotion-words untranslated resists monolingual Western hegemony over meaning
• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘community’ means in Anderson’s title by contrast with its cold French and Italian counterparts.

Related

• The English word ‘community’ carries warmth no French or Italian equivalent has (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• Many languages lack a direct equivalent of the English word trust #corroborates (0.85)
• Leaving key emotion-words untranslated resists monolingual Western hegemony over meaning #complicates (0.75)
• Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them #expands (0.72)