CONVENTIONALITY Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

conventionality

noun

Definition of conventionality

as in conventionalism

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as in status quo

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Recent Examples of conventionality The conventionality that Gunn resorts to includes a subplot with the Green Lantern League, a jokey crew of XYZ-men knock-offs. — Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025 Even in flirting with conventionality, Rahmani comes out on top. — Porochista Khakpour, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025 Despite all the pastor’s conventionality and sanctimony, there are flames between them, but those flickers run fairly cool until a breaking point in which Manders at last makes explicit reference to them. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025 Try to reach working-class voters by railing against corporate power, or dominate the suburban vote as the party of conventionality? — Ross Barkan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conventionality

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Noun

Still, the direction of travel for this industry is from a Wild West of essentially unbridled development to a more regulated status quo.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2026
His characters confront moments of reckoning—some comic, others karmic, often both—where self-belief collides with a buckling status quo.

— Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of status quo

Noun

The crimson hue that may have been visible at the height of the eclipse will gradually fade as the crescent of the lunar disk exposed to direct sunlight grows, and normality reasserts itself over the natural satellite.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026
By the time the world returned to relative normality, her priorities had shifted.

— Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of normality

Noun

But at a school that just produced Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza and Naismith Player of the Year Cameron Boozer, among others, Garcia gets the rare opportunity to tap into some normalcy.

— Tyler Carmona, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
The stakes are just different now for Skubal, who has repeatedly talked about keeping everything the same and finding normalcy in any situation.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of normalcy

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