conventional
What I want is free expression, not conventionality.
The film emphasizes the grinding conventionality of the character's life in the suburbs.
He seemed to be completely ignorant of the conventionalities of custom and of taste.
Conventionality is concerned with the maintenance of conventions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization
anti-classical
anti-conventional
anti-institutional
anti-traditional
costume
counter-tradition
crowd
custom
demi-monde
moonraker
mores
multicultural
multiculturalism
multiculturally
traditionalist
traditionally
ultra-conservatism
ultra-conservative
ultra-traditional

Examples of conventionality

conventionality
For the development of transcendent wisdom, spiritual engagement and mystical experiences may facilitate the transcendence of identity, conventionalities and inertia that hinder growth and maturity.
In this ingenious way, the theatre's conventionality is unveiled, and this, in turn, heightens the appearance of the aesthetic function.
Still, in spite of the explicability of many alternation failures, there is undoubtedly a certain amount of pure conventionality about the matter.
The jumps of lineby-line collage have been replaced by smoothed-over sentences of surreal hypotactic conventionality.
Its very conventionality reveals that even a scoundrel may compose, in however banal a manner.
Positivists insist on law's conventionality as essential to our understanding its possibility.
Furthermore, the degree of conventionality of the gesture did not appear to play a significant role in children's performance at either age.
Even if these reviews can overcome their conventionality bias, results will still need to be assigned a priority for further investigation and investment.
In this first chapter, examples of metaphors are used to introduce clines of metaphoricity in terms of degree of similarity, of conventionality, of marking, of contradictoriness, and of explicitness.
Even if the linguistic manifestation shows variation in its conventionality, the underlying mapping remains constant across the different instances, allowing speakers to process each of these instances with ease.
For the exclusive legal positivist, the conventionality of law is compromised whenever the r ule of recognition conditions legal validity on the moral superiority or acceptability of a norm.
Scales for children and adolescents measured five major aspects of the youngster's personality, behavior, and attitudes: conventionality, control of emotions, ego integration, pathology, and perception of school achievement.
Not only does this suggest the conventionality of icons, but it emphasizes the constant presence of the female body as capital in an economy of signification and power.
The returning avenger is a parody of everything she had ever dreamed of in terms of an audacious indulgence of life and a transgression of bourgeois conformity and conventionality.
All they that pass by wag their heads and mourn at her conventionalities her respectabilities, her lack of discernment of the signs of the times.
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