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conventionality

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con·ven·tion·al·i·ty  (kn-vnsh-nl-t)
n. pl. con·ven·tion·al·i·ties
1. The state, quality, or character of being conventional.
2. A conventional act, idea, or practice.
3. conventionalities The rules of conventional social behavior.
conventionality
Noun
pl -ties
1. the quality of being conventional
2. something conventional
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.conventionality - conformity with conventional thought and behavior
conformism, conformity - orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
2.conventionality - unoriginality as a result of being too conventional
unoriginality - uncreativeness due to a lack of originality
unconventionality - originality by virtue of being unconventional
3.conventionality - orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
conventionalism, convention
orthodoxy - the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
ossification, conformity - hardened conventionality
unconventionality - unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional


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All these reasons justify the view that the poems with which we now have to deal were later than the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", and if we must recognize the possibility of some conventionality in the received dating, we may feel confident that it is at least approximately just.
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His eyes, looking serenely and steadily at Rostov, seemed to be veiled by something, as if screened by blue spectacles of conventionality.
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As for Goldoni himself, he apparently never dreams of transgression; he is of rather an explicit conventionality in most things, and he deals with society as something finally settled.
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