Conformity Definition

kən-fôrmĭ-tē
conformities
noun
conformities
The condition or fact of being in harmony or agreement; correspondence; congruity; similarity.
Webster's New World
Action in accordance with customs, rules, prevailing opinion, etc.; conventional behavior.
Webster's New World
Adherence to the practices of the Anglican Church.
Webster's New World
The relationship between rock or sediment strata that were deposited adjacently or vertically in sequence without any interruption due to erosion, tilting, folding, or similar natural processes.
American Heritage
A surface exhibiting such a relationship between older rock strata and younger rock strata.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
Antonyms:

Other Word Forms of Conformity

Noun

Singular:
conformity
Plural:
conformities

Origin of Conformity

  • From Middle French conformité

    From Wiktionary

Conformity Sentence Examples

  • Knowledge is of ideas and is in conformity with the necessary laws of thought.

  • His conformity at the end had in it nothing contradictory of his past.

  • The freedom of the individual was denied when the state enforced religious conformity.

  • In all but a few places where their relations are known, the Proterozoic rocks are unconformable beneath the Palaeozoic Where conformity exists the separation is made on the basis of fossils, it having been agreed that the oldest rocks carrying the Olenellus fauna are to be regarded as the base of the Cambrian system.

  • The explanation of the apparent conformity of the strata from the Cambrian to the Pennsylvanian in some parts of the west, with no fossils defining with certainty any horizon between the Ordovician and the Mississippian, is one of the open problems in the geology of the United States.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to conformity using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

YTYITY

Unscrambles

conformity

Words Starting With C and Ending With Y

Starts With C & Ends With YStarts With CO & Ends With YStarts With C & Ends With TY

Word Length

10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With C10 Letter Words Ending With Y