herd instinctnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈhɜːd ˌɪn.stɪŋkt/us/ˈhɝːd ˌɪn.stɪŋkt/disapprovinga situation in which people act like everyone else without considering the reason why
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- fashion
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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