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conformity

UK/kənˈfɔːmɪti/US/kənˈfoɹmɪti/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,419 of 15,258leans written

Conformity is behaving the same way as everybody else. Social conformity, pressure to conformity, in conformity with the rules.

The Asch experiments showed people agreeing with an obviously wrong answer simply because a group had given it, which is the classic demonstration. In conformity with is the formal phrase meaning in accordance with.

Definitions of conformity

  1. 1nounconformityBehaving the same way as everybody else.C1

    “The school's strict uniform rules are meant to encourage conformity.”

conformity is a behaviour.

Where it comes from

Middle French conformite comes from Latin conformare, to shape after, from con- plus forma, shape.

  1. Middle French

    conformité

  2. Middle English

    conformyte

  3. English, today

    conformity

From Middle English conformyte, from Middle French conformité. by surface analysis, conform + -ity.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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conformity in the wild

  • Accreditation bodies are established in many economies with the primary purpose of ensuring that conformity assessment bodies are subject to oversight by an authoritative body.

    Accreditation

  • Normative social influence is a type of social influence that leads to conformity.

    Normative social influence

  • The need for a positive relationship with the people around leads us to conformity.

    Normative social influence

  • Thus, conformity is sometimes a product of group communication.

    Conformity

  • Solomon Asch, a social psychologist whose obedience research remains among the most influential in psychology, demonstrated the power of conformity through his experiment on line judgment.

    Conformity

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • conform