The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conformity \Con*form"i*ty\, n.; pl. Conformities. [Cf. F. conformit['e].]
-
Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.
By our conformity to God.
--Tillotson.The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God.
--Dr. H.More.A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste.
--Addison. -
(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.
The king [James I.] soon afterward put forth a proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civil officers to do their duty by enforcing conformity.
--Hallam.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of conformity English)
Usage examples of "conformities".
This house had survived the imaginative flights and dire conformities of both his wives.
She can remind us of the depths of longing and wilderness that lurk beneath the conformities of our daily life, while at the same time celebrating the heroic effort it takes to live that daily life, to choose, again and again, the things that affirm life: Love, responsibility, compassion.
The age of empire was over, and all dogmas, edicts, and conformities had gone with it.
The conformities from one universe to the next are very close or we couldn't travel between them.