Conventionality is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONVENTIONALITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a conventional usage, practice, or thing
• The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• conformity with conventional thought and behavior
• unoriginality as a result of being too conventional
• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a person) greatly or overly concerned with what is generally held to be socially acceptable
• (of a work of art or literature) following traditional forms and genres
• (of weapons or power) non-nuclear
• based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed
• (of a bid) intended to convey a particular meaning according to an agreed convention

Words related to CONVENTIONALITY

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How to use CONVENTIONALITY in a sentence

• The suburban child may on the contrary be balked and restricted so that unnecessary mystery gives an unwholesome interest to these things and conventionality a dishonest reserve.
• Dante was the first of the moderns to seek Poetry at the same fountain, and to free her from the chains of conventionality which had long bound her.
• I mention this incident to illustrate the lack of conventionality and whimsical originality of the man, that stood out no less forcibly in his writings than in his daily life.
• Jefferson captivated all by his democratic manners and entire indifference to social conventionality, much as the incomparable Dr.
• He seemed to believe that if he smiled all the way across his face, he would damage a conventionality.
• This practice comes with later years, when the live spring of feelings begins to dry up and the mind acquires a certain conventionality.
• Her unsophisticated open-air existence required no varnish of conventionality to make it palatable to him.
• Later on, while still a lad, he escaped from Umbrian conventionality by learning all that was valuable in the art of Masaccio and Fra Bartolommeo.
• A fearful tragedy had swept away the structure of argument in favour of the rights of love which he had built over the original conventionality of his mind.
• Truly, Cora was bound to the rack with cords of conventionality as fine as cobwebs, yet as strong as ropes.
• I do dislike stiffness and conventionality excessively.
• But this is conventionality, and conventionality has to be thanked for it.
• Thus his finest moments are marred by lapses from sincerity into the commonplace conventionality of the day.
• Side by side with passages of vital force and persuasive beauty there are dreary wastes of commonplace and the most arid conventionality.
• The very conventionality disguises from writer and reader the confusion or absolute lack of idea it serves to cloak.
• The conventionality shows itself in one rather surprising way.
• Not one man in a thousand could have made such a proposition without an immediate erection on my part of the barriers of conventionality.
• Conventionality has done a good deal, but it has not refined away all the frank, impulsive woman-nature yet.
• A conventionality is not necessarily bad or contemptible merely as such.
• There was an entire absence of conventionality at our meetings, and this, compared with the somewhat stiff society of the village, was really an attraction.
• Besides, the gifted Miss Hamilton is an artist, and that covers a multitude of sins against conventionality.
• Conventionality, years, and the veneer of society were lightly laid upon one who would always be a boy.
• The term new can hardly be attributed to the notion of a plucked flower as a type of death, but it occurs in so many varieties as almost to redeem its conventionality.
• There is a cloak of conventionality thrown over the blacker tints of the picture to-day in advanced Christian lands.
• Lincoln felt that he must come down into the arena, without regard to official conventionality.
• The breeze cooled her hot cheeks, kissed away her tears, and half an hour later they approached the hotel, chatting as quietly as the strictest conventionality would require.
• She seemed to feel him pleading with her, earnestly beseeching her, reasoning against prejudice, against the shackles of conventionality, against reason itself.
• Perhaps too he perceived the error of his middle age, when he contrasted that former wedding, the work of worldly conventionality, with the present.
• Love does not go by words, and there are times when conventionality is impossible.
• He was used to conventionality, albeit richness, and a degree even of luxury.
• The girdle of conventionality is laid aside, and the skirts rise with the spirits.
• All these would be most interesting experiments, and would add a picturesque touch to the conventionality of modern administration.
• Conventionality has a bad name at present, and manners are on the decline, this is a fact quite undisputed.

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