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conventionality

noun

con·​ven·​tion·​al·​i·​ty kən-ˌven(t)-shə-ˈna-lə-tē How to pronounce conventionality (audio)
plural conventionalities
1
: a conventional usage, practice, or thing
2
: the quality or state of being conventional
especially : adherence to conventions

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Messiness releases you from conventionality and thus inspires fresh insights. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022 That began to change in the prosperous, back-to-conventionality Eisenhower era. oregonlive, 11 May 2022 His brother, Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch), unbridled and terrifyingly intelligent, wants nothing to do with George’s conventionality. Vogue, 21 Oct. 2021 But then the form’s conventionality and constraints began to appeal to him: resistance requires something to resist. Dimiter Kenarov, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021 Collins, who died on April 28 at the age of 90, dutifully performed the public acts required of a person who had achieved unfathomable distinction, but in a manner that defied conventionality. Nathan Wurtzel, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021 Biden’s initial round of hires disappointed some of the most ardent liberals, but Rubio’s acerbic reaction underscores the downsides of conventionality. Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2020 That conventionality makes these people more rather than less like us, which is salutary for human beings politically regarded as aliens. Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 22 June 2019 One of cinema’s great smolders ensues, as Archer — a helpless cog in high-class society’s machine of repression and conventionality — struggles mightily to keep his passions under wraps. Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1834, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of conventionality was circa 1834

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