conformity
con·form·ity (kən fôr′mə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- the condition or fact of being in harmony or agreement; correspondence; congruity; similarity
- action in accordance with customs, rules, prevailing opinion, etc.; conventional behavior
- Eng. History adherence to the practices of the Anglican Church
Etymology: ME conformite < OFr < ML *conformitas < L conformare: see conform
conformity
n.
Similarity
congruity, correspondence, resemblance; see conformation 1, similarity.Obedience
compliance, conventionality, conformism, lockstep; see docility.
Converse of object
- enforce: Instead of trying to guide moral behavior the Church now looks to the state to enforce moral conformity.
- ensure: To ensure conformity across The Service a template for the final accounts is available on the shared drive.
- impose: India's democracy imposes no narrow conformities on its citizens.
- demonstrate: Standards are not the only means of demonstrating conformity - codes of practice, empirical design or other suitable methods are acceptable equivalents.
- demand: This Asperger adventure explores the human condition and the need to integrate into a society that demands conformity.
- require: Suppressing our individual thoughts and ideas when at our jobs, if the jobs happen to require conformity.
Preposition: with
- principle: Great care has been taken to ensure that it is in explicit conformity with the principles of the United Nations charter.
- requirement: To ensure quality of written and spoken word in a designated language and to ensure conformity with format holder requirements.
- law: National law must always be interpreted in conformity with European law which takes precedence.
- provision: Brokers or intermediaries may not accept orders to tender shares which have not been made in conformity with the provisions set forth above.
- obligation: We had to force conformity with international obligations that for years had been breached with the world turning a blind eye.
- will: In 133 BC, in conformity with the will of Attalus III of Pergamum, the Anatolia lands were attached to Rome.
Adjective modifier
- rigid: Labor are effectively imposing a blueprint of rigid conformity on parish councils.
- strict: These arrangements will be perfectly free; they will be in strict conformity with the wishes of the passions.
- ideological: Were MPs and cabinet members really comfortable with the pager system enforcing a uniformed linguistic and ideological conformity from them?
- dull: Their bohemian way of living would challenge the dull conformity of everyday life under capitalism.
- general: The Ealing plan is in general conformity with the London Plan.
- absolute: In fact, Britain was the first major European country to break with the medieval European tradition of absolute religious conformity.
Modifies a noun
- assessment: Its primary function is to develop a world wide program of conformity assessment which will promote the elimination of non tariff barriers to trade.
- procedure: Once this has been determined they will need to follow the appropriate conformity assessment procedure.
Les beaute¤ s ont, dans les arts, le me" me fondement que les ve¤ rite¤ s dans la philosophie.Qu'est-ce que la ve¤ rite¤ ? La conformite¤ de nos jugements avec les e" tres. Qu'est-ce que la beaute¤ d'imitation? La conformite¤ de l'image avec la chose. Beauty has in art the same foundation as does truth in philosophy. What is the truth? The conformity of our judgements with beings. What is the beauty of imitation? The conformity of the image with the thing.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
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