conformity
nounEtymology
From Middle English conformyte, from Middle French conformité. By surface analysis, conform + -ity.
- derived from conformité
- inherited from conformyte
Definitions
The state of things being similar or identical.
A point of resemblance
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
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The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- synonymabidance
- synonymaccordance
- synonymacquiescence
- synonymadherence
- synonymcomplacence
- synonymcomplaisance
- synonymcompliance
- synonymcompliancy
- synonymconformance
- synonymconformity
- synonymkeeping
- synonymsufferance
- antonymnonconformity
- antonymunconformity
- neighborconform
- neighborconformance
- neighborconformism
- neighborstate
- neighbororthodoxy
- neighborhypercompliance
- neighborovercompliance
- neighborundercompliance
- neighbordocility
- neighborobedience
- neighborobsequiousness
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at conformity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at conformity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at conformity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA