conformity

From Middle French conformité

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conformity (countable and uncountable, plural conformities)

1. The state of things being similar or identical.
2. A point of resemblance; a similarity.
3. The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.

   Synonym: compliance

4. The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
   • Kenneth Tynan

     How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

• Sometimes used interchangeably with conformation.

• conformance

• nonconformity

• conform
• conformance
• conformism

• “conformity” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.