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Definition of Conformity

1. Noun. Correspondence in form or appearance.

2. Noun. Acting according to certain accepted standards. "Their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"

3. Noun. Orthodoxy in thoughts and belief.

4. Noun. Concurrence of opinion. "We are in accord with your proposal"

5. Noun. Hardened conventionality.

Definition of Conformity

1. n. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.

Definition of Conformity

1. Noun. State of things being similar, or identical. ¹

2. Noun. A point of resemblance; a similarity. ¹

3. Noun. The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conformity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conformity

conformationally conformations conformative conformator conformators conformed conformer conformers conforming conformingly

conformism conformisms conformist conformists conformities conformity conforms confound confounded confoundedly

confoundedness confounder confounders confoundest confoundeth confounding confounding factor confounding variable confoundingly confounds

Literary usage of Conformity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Hume has to derive from 'impressions' the objects which Locke took for granted. conformity or non-conformity of any action ' to one or other of the above ..."

2. Human Nature and the Social Order by Charles Horton Cooley (1922)
"Conformity may be defined as the endeavor to tj maintain a standard set by a ... Thus it is not conformity, for most of us, to speak the English language, ..."

3. The Works of Joseph Bellamy by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1850)
"Hence, as to a natural capacity, all mankind are capable of a perfect conformity to this law; for the law requires of no man any more than to love God with ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Au order will be remitted to the district court in conformity with this opinion. ... Decision of state court in conformity to opinion of this court not ..."

5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Acts against Occasional Conformity and the growth of Schism, 1711 and 1713. first time, the right of public worship beyond the pale of the State Church, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"The 10th section merely states the evidence of the conformity. Lord Ellenborough, CJ Supposing no general plea had been given, the question would still have ..."

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