conformity

[conformity]

If all your friends wear jeans to school and you wear checkered slacks, you could say you reject conformity doing the same thing as everyone else.

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Noun
acting according to certain accepted standards

Noun
correspondence in form or appearance

Noun
hardened conventionality

Noun
orthodoxy in thoughts and belief

Noun
concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"

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n.
Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.

n.
Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.


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Usage Examples

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

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Other Usage Examples

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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