Conventionality Synonyms and Antonyms

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Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. convention
  2. conventionalism
Antonyms:
  1. unconventionality

Words Related to Conventionality

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Conventionality Sentence Examples

  • A few, like Ruskin, were doubtful about "that increased quietness of style"; one or two already suspected that the "sweetness" was obtained at some sacrifice of force, and that the "purity" involved a concession to Victorian conventionality.

  • Altogether a remarkable revival of belles-lettres has taken place in Sweden after a long period of inertness and conventionality.

  • Their conventionality sets the lyrics of Cruz e Silva on a lower plane, but in the Hyssope he improves on the Lutrin of Boileau.

  • His eyes, looking serenely and steadily at Rostov, seemed to be veiled by something, as if screened by blue spectacles of conventionality.

  • Its succession of word pictures, conventional and yet vigorous as the illuminations of a medieval manuscript, and in their very conventionality free from all thought of literary presentation, must charm all readers.

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