conformity
noun
action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
conformities
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pluralof conformity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
For these seekers after truth, “the woods” became, like “the greenwood” in Merrie England, the place where an individual could truly savour the mysteries of life, free from the restricting conformities of church and state.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017
“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
Uniforms, and military conformities generally, are queer things if you take the right point of view.
From Daisy by Susan Warner
