Associations to the word «Conventionality»

Wiktionary

CONVENTIONALITY, noun. (uncountable) The state of being conventional
CONVENTIONALITY, noun. (countable) Something conventional; a convention

Dictionary definition

CONVENTIONALITY, noun. Conformity with conventional thought and behavior.
CONVENTIONALITY, noun. Unoriginality as a result of being too conventional.
CONVENTIONALITY, noun. Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope