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conventionality

[ UK /kənvˌɛnʃənˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
  2. unoriginality as a result of being too conventional
  3. conformity with conventional thought and behavior

How To Use conventionality In A Sentence

  • However, this literature provides numerous examples of the codes that indicate considerable variations in how conventionality and the codes are exhibited by specific individuals or social networks.
  • For May had the unique advantage of combining that degree of conventionality which is admissibly essential, with a refreshing lack of conventionality in non-essentials. A Venetian June
  • Those coddled straight-jackets, walled in by their own conventionality ? BEHINDLINGS
  • Conventionality in a system of communication offers stability, and thereby makes communication feasible from one occasion to the next.
  • Saturn governs theories and scientific law, older persons, depth, patience, timing, tradition, conventionality, orthodoxy and productive use of time.
  • The memorial's organization of form and materials might suggest a kind of natural, earthy, broad-sweeping and open Australianness in contrast to the ceremonious conventionality of old world edifices.
  • For May had the unique advantage of combining that degree of conventionality which is admissibly essential, with a refreshing lack of conventionality in non-essentials. A Venetian June
  • “Unreasonable” is, of course informally defined and therefore arguable: as with the Argument by Insignification, conventionality may offer a standard of approximate objectivity by which significance can be deemed idiolectic and idiosyncratic, an eccentric invention, or validated as a more perceptive reading; ISMs will often lead to Import Artifices, but the subcultural semantic associations which lead to them may also legitimise significances within one community that another would consider spurious; accusations of Import Artifices should therefore be interrogated for evidence of a Subtextual Sensitivity Differential. posted by Hal Duncan | 1: 12 PM Archive 2009-03-01
  • It may be one kind of conventionality for some of us and another kind for others, but we are borne on by it all the same. The Associate Hermits
  • As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality.
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