Meaning of conformity in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /kənˈfɔrmədi/

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  1. Noun

    conformity

    Etymology

    late Middle English: from Old French conformite or late Latin conformitas, from conformare‘to form, fashion’ (see conform)

    Definitions

    1. correspondence in form or appearance

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  2. 2. acting according to certain accepted standards

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  3. 3. orthodoxy in thoughts and belief

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  4. 4. concurrence of opinion

    Examples

    • « we are in accord with your proposal »
  5. 5. hardened conventionality

    Derived terms

Famous quotes

  • « That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. »
    Freda Adler
  • « Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. »
    Barry Goldwater
  • « The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. »
    Bryant McGill
  • « Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. »
    John F. Kennedy
  • « We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. »
    John F. Kennedy

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