conformity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   acting according to certain accepted standards

   their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   correspondence in form or appearance

4. 4
   noun

   hardened conventionality

5. 5
   noun

   orthodoxy in thoughts and belief

6. 6
   noun

   concurrence of opinion

7. 7
   noun

   The state of things being similar or identical.

8. 8
   noun

   A point of resemblance; a similarity.

Etymology

From Middle English conformyte, from Middle French conformité. By surface analysis, conform + -ity.