conformity

Plural: conformities

Noun

• correspondence in form or appearance
• acting according to certain accepted standards
  • "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
• orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
• concurrence of opinion
• hardened conventionality
• The state of things being similar or identical.
• A point of resemblance; a similarity.
• The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
• The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.

Synonyms

abidance, accord, accordance, compliance, conformance, conformation, conformism, ossification, acquiescence, adherence, complacence, complaisance, compliancy, conformity, homogeneity, homogeneousness, keeping, regularity, sufferance, uniformity, uniformness

Antonyms

noncompliance, nonconformism, nonconformity, unconformity

Related Words

conform, conformance, conformism