conformity

English

Etymology

From Middle French conformité.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɔɹmɪti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɔːmɪti/
• Hyphenation: con‧for‧mi‧ty

• Audio (US):

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Noun

conformity (countable and uncountable, plural conformities)

1. The state of things being similar or identical.

   Synonyms: homogeneity, uniformity; see also Thesaurus:uniformity

2. A point of resemblance; a similarity.
3. The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.

   Synonyms: compliance, conformance; see also Thesaurus:conformity

4. The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
   • 1967, Tynan, Kenneth, Tynan Right and Left:

     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.

Usage notes

• Sometimes used interchangeably with conformation.

Antonyms

• nonconformity

 

Derived terms

• anticonformity
• disconformity
• hyperconformity
• inconformity
• nonconformity
• osmoconformity
• oxyconformity
• preconformity
• thermoconformity
• unconformity

 

Related terms

• conform
• conformance
• conformism

 

Translations

state of things being similar, or identical

• Albanian: njësoj (sq) c
• Bulgarian: съответствие (bg) n (sǎotvetstvie)
• Catalan: conformitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

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• Danish: konformitet c
• Dutch: conformiteit (nl)
• Finnish: yhdenmukaisuus (fi)
• French: conformité (fr) f
• Galician: conformidade (gl) f
• German: Konformität (de) f
• Greek: συμμόρφωση (el) f (symmórfosi), συμμορφία f (symmorfía), ευπείθεια (el) f (efpeítheia)
• Hungarian: hasonlóság (hu), egyezés (hu), illeszkedés (hu), összhang (hu)
• Irish: admháil f
• Norwegian: konformitet m, overenstemmelse
• Norwegian Bokmål: likhet (no) c, ensartethet c
• Portuguese: conformidade (pt) f
• Romanian: conformitate (ro) f
• Russian: соотве́тствие (ru) n (sootvétstvije)
• Spanish: conformidad (es) f
• Tagalog: pakikibagay

point of resemblance

• Chinese:

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• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: samankaltaisuus (fi)

state of complying with a set of rules

• Bulgarian: подчинение (bg) n (podčinenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遵守 (zh) (zūnshǒu), 遵從／遵从 (zh) (zūncóng), 順從／顺从 (zh) (shùncóng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: säännönmukaisuus (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀκολουθία f (akolouthía)

• Hungarian: megfelelőség (hu), összhang (hu)

ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity — see also conformism

• Bulgarian: конформизъм m (konformizǎm)
• Chinese:

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• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: konformismi (fi)
• Hungarian: konformitás (hu), alkalmazkodás (hu), igazodás (hu), beilleszkedés (hu), behódolás (hu), idomulás, konformizmus (hu)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “conformity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.