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Conventionality

noun
(pl. conventionalities)
1.
Conformity with conventional thought and behavior.
2.
Unoriginality as a result of being too conventional.
3.
Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.  Synonyms: convention, conventionalism.





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"Conventionality" Quotes from Famous Books



... and reason, and repudiation of the mediaeval canon law. It is not here, nevertheless, that Milton is most at home. The strength of his position is his lofty idealism, his magnificent conception of the institution he discusses, and his disdain for whatever degrades it to conventionality or mere expediency. "His ideal of true and perfect marriage," says Mr. Ernest Myers, "appeared to him so sacred that he could not admit that considerations of expediency might justify the law in maintaining sacred any meaner kind, or at least any kind in which the vital element ...
— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett
... waiter. His movements were always picturesque, and in the presence of Englishmen he had a habit of accentuating those characteristics of speech and manner which are held by our countrymen to be native to the Peninsula. There is nothing so disarming as conventionality—and nothing less suspicious. Larralde seemed ever to be a typical Spaniard—indolently polite, ...
— In Kedar's Tents • Henry Seton Merriman
... sacrificing attitude she was forced to admit the plea of Alec's own bewildering lack of conventionality. If half the stories in the newspapers were true, he was the most original minded monarch that ever reigned. She was quite sure that his answer to any evasive reply on her part would be a public ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... other towns, in later days, have looked with equal benevolence upon the peccadillos of some petted favourite. The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality. Are we ourselves exacting where the Thespian ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... alpenstock, and hastened swiftly forward. The path soon afterward emerged on the public road. The breeze cooled her hot cheeks, kissed away her tears, and half an hour later they approached the hotel, chatting as quietly as the strictest conventionality would require. ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe


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