CONVENTIONAL WISDOMS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

conventional wisdoms

noun

plural of conventional wisdom

as in party lines

opinions or beliefs that are held or accepted by most people Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.

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profundities

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Noun

Brousson is an Austin resident and often posts satirical videos teasing Texas cliches and generalizations.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2026
Teenagers are tested on more advanced skills, such as making generalizations from a reading passage and comparing information from charts and graphs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 June 2026

Definition of generalizations

Noun

Plenty of professions skew one way or another, but those patterns aren’t driven by biology but rather our cultural stereotypes about who is good at what kind of work.

— Miranda Shanahan, Time, 10 July 2026
Those immigration conditions led to decades of stateside stereotypes of Italians as poor and violent and their diet ridiculed as peasant grub.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of stereotypes

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