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conformity
CIDE DICTIONARY
conformity, n. [Cf. F. conformité.].
- Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. [1913 Webster]"By our conformity to God." [1913 Webster]"The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God." [1913 Webster]"A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste." [1913 Webster]
- Compliance with the usages of the Established Church. [1913 Webster]"The king [James I.] soon afterward put forth a proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civil officers to do their duty by enforcing conformity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
conformity, n.
1 (often foll. by to, with) action or behaviour in accordance with established practice; compliance.
2 (often foll. by to, with) correspondence in form or manner; likeness, agreement.
3 Brit. compliance with the practices of the Church of England.
1 (often foll. by to, with) action or behaviour in accordance with established practice; compliance.
2 (often foll. by to, with) correspondence in form or manner; likeness, agreement.
3 Brit. compliance with the practices of the Church of England.
Etymology
ME f. OF conformit{eacute} or LL conformitas (as conform)
THESAURUS
conformity
accord, accordance, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adherence, adoration, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegiance, alliance, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assent, assimilation, balance, bienseance, bilateral symmetry, bon ton, care, carrying out, chorus, churchgoing, civility, closeness, coherence, coincidence, community, comparability, comparison, compatibility, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance, consort, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, cooperation, copying, correctness, correspondence, cultism, custom, decency, decorousness, decorum, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, discharge, duteousness, dutifulness, dynamic symmetry, equality, equilibrium, equivalence, established way, etiquette, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, execution, faith, faithfulness, fashion, fealty, finish, folkway, form, formality, fulfillment, good form, harmony, heed, heeding, homage, identity, imitation, intersection, keeping, likeness, likening, love of God, loyalty, manner, manners, metaphor, mimicking, mores, multilateral symmetry, nearness, obedience, obediency, observance, observation, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parity, peace, performance, pietism, piety, piousness, polarity, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, proportion, proportionality, propriety, rapport, regularity, religion, religionism, religiousness, resemblance, resignation, respect, reverence, ritual, sameness, satisfaction, seemliness, self-consistency, semblance, service, servility, servitium, shapeliness, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, social convention, social usage, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, submission, submissiveness, suit and service, suit service, symmetricalness, symmetry, sync, synchronism, tally, theism, time-honored practice, timing, tradition, trilateral symmetry, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, usage, use, veneration, way, what is done, willingness, wont, wonting, worship, worshipfulnessROGET THESAURUS
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Habit
N habit, habitude, assuetude, assuefaction, wont, run, way, common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things, matter of course, beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground, prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice, prevalence, observance, conventionalism, conventionality, mode, fashion, vogue, etiquette, order of the day, cry, conformity, consuetude, dustoor, one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae, laudator temporis acti, rule, standing order, precedent, routine, red-tape, red-tapism, pipe clay, rut, groove, cacoethes, bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit, addiction, trick, training, seasoning, second nature, acclimatization, knack, habitual, accustomary, prescriptive, accustomed, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, consuetudinary, wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot, well-trodden, well-known, familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped, prevailing, prevalent, current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited, of course, admitted, understood, conformable, according to use, according to custom, according to routine, in vogue, in fashion, in, with it, fashionable, wont, used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated, in the habit of, habitue, at home in, seasoned, imbued with, devoted to, wedded to, hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting, naturalized, ingrained, habitually, always, as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards, more suo, more solito, ex more, as a rule, for the most part, usually, generally, typically, most often, most frequently, cela s'entend, abeunt studia in mores, adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, consuetudo quasi altera natura, hoc erat in more majorum, How use doth breed a habit in a man!, magna est vis consuetudinis, morent fecerat usus.Uniformity
N uniformity, homogeneity, homogeneousness, consistency, connaturality, connaturalness, homology, accordance, conformity, agreement, consonance, uniformness, regularity, constancy, even tenor, routine, monotony, uniform, homogeneous, homologous, of a piece, consistent, connatural, monotonous, even, invariable, regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying, unsegmented, uniformly, uniformly with, in harmony with, always, invariably, without exception, without fail, unfailingly, never otherwise, by clockwork, ab uno disce omnes.Agreement
N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.Conformity
N conformity, conformance, observance, habituation, naturalization, conventionality, agreement, example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation, exemplification, illustration, case in point, object lesson, elucidation, standard, model, pattern, rule, nature, principle, law, order of things, normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition, standing dish, standing order, Procrustean law, law of the Medes and Persians, hard and fast rule, conformable to rule, regular, according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter, en regle, selon les regles, well regulated, orderly, symmetric, conventional, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, in the natural order of things, ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday, in the order of the day, naturalized, typical, normal, nominal, formal, canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean, secundum artem, shipshape, technical, exempIe, illustrative, in point, conformably, by rule, agreeably to, in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with, according to, consistently with, as usual, ad instar, instar omnium, more solito, more-majorum, for the sake of conformity, as a matter of course, of course, pro forma, for form's sake, by the card, invariably, for example, exempli gratia, e, g, inter alia, among other things, for instance, cela va sans dire, ex pede Herculem, noscitur a sociis, ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat, they are happy men whose natures sort with their v, The nail that sticks up hammered down, Tall poppy syndrome, Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.Frequency
N frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness, repetition, normality, example (conformity), routine, custom (habit), regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision, punctuality, even tenor, system, routine, formula, rule, keynote, standard, model, precedent, conformity, frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick, uniform, repeated, customary, (habit), regular (normal), according to rule, common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar, old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial, often, oft, ofttimes, oftentimes, frequently, repeatedly, unseldom, not unfrequently, in quick succession, in rapid succession, many a time and oft, daily, hourly, every day, every hour, every moment, perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit), most often, commonly, sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, toties quoties, often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again.For further exploring for "conformity" in Webster Dictionary Online