conformismn.
/kənˈfɔːmɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kənˈfɔrˌmɪzəm/ The action, practice, or principle of conforming; belief in conforming; = conformity n. 2a.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc.
conformitya1513
symbolization1633
conforming1641
conformism1926
1926 B. Brownell New Universe ii. vii. 158 They provided safety in some measure without the crush and swagger of gigantic social conformisms and autocracy.
1937 D. Bussy tr. A. Gide Back from U.S.S.R. v. 76 ‘Art to-day should be popular or nothing.’ ‘You will drive all your artists to conformism,’ I answered.
1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 150 For us, the choice involved a revolutionary negation of our past—for them it is an act of conformism.
1957 P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. v. 64 Conformism may be a special defence mechanism.
1958 Punch 25 June 849/1 If we follow America and Russia into conformism we are going to sacrifice our inventiveness.
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n.1926- to sit up like jacky
- to sit upon
- to sit upon her anchor
- to sit upon hot cockles
- to sit upon one's knee
- to sit upon one's knees
- to sit upon the splice
- to sit warm the pine
- to sit with
- to sit, etc, on one's own coat-tail
- to sit, etc, on one's own coattail
- to sit, lie still
- to skate on thin ice
- to skate over or round
- to skate over thin ice
- to ski parallel
- to skin a flea for its hide and tallow
- to skin a flint
- to skin a person alive
- to skin alive
- to skin and bone
- to skin and bones
- to skin one's eyes
- to skin one's teeth
- to skin the cat