conventionality
Americannoun
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conventional quality or character.
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adherence to convention.
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a conventional practice, principle, form, etc.
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conventionalities, conventional rules of behavior.
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the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
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(often plural) something conventional, esp a normal or accepted rule of behaviour; propriety
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Origin of conventionality
First recorded in 1825–35; conventional + -ity
Example Sentences
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But the Met’s desperation for conventionality — read accessibility — never quite recedes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
But when intellectuals refuse to render moral judgments, when they sink into safe conventionality, that in itself is a kind of judgment.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
Or maybe it has more to do with Lana’s use of convention to smash conventionality.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023
Maes, meanwhile, grew up bucking against a “controlling mother,” Kapur writes, and the narrow conventionality of Flanders.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021
I suspect that inside the impenetrable fortress of conventionality he’s become, there’s one crazy-ass museum.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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