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单词 conventionality
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conventionality
noun[UorC]
uk
/kənˌven.ʃənˈæl.ə.ti/us
/kənˌven.ʃənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
thequalityof beingtraditionalandordinaryor apartof something that is like this:
墨守成规；循规蹈矩
Theartistsweredrawnto one another bytheirrejectionof conventionality.这些艺术家们因为拒绝墨守成规而互相吸引。
Sheobservesthe conventionalities ofmiddleclasslife.她循规蹈矩地过着中产阶级的生活。
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conventional
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  • What Iwantisfreeexpression, not conventionality.
  • Thefilmemphasizesthegrindingconventionality of the character'slifein thesuburbs.
  • Heseemedto becompletelyignorantof the conventionalities ofcustomand oftaste.
  • Conventionality isconcernedwith themaintenanceofconventions.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Custom, tradition & conformity
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  • multiculturalism
  • non-classical
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(Definition ofconventionalityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconventionality

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For the development of transcendent wisdom, spiritual engagement and mystical experiences may facilitate the transcendence of identity, conventionalities and inertia that hinder growth and maturity.
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In this ingenious way, the theatre'sconventionalityis unveiled, and this, in turn, heightens the appearance of the aesthetic function.
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Still, in spite of the explicability of many alternation failures, there is undoubtedly a certain amount of pureconventionalityabout the matter.
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The jumps of lineby-line collage have been replaced by smoothed-over sentences of surreal hypotacticconventionality.
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Its veryconventionalityreveals that even a scoundrel may compose, in however banal a manner.
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Positivists insist on law'sconventionalityas essential to our understanding its possibility.
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Furthermore, the degree ofconventionalityof the gesture did not appear to play a significant role in children's performance at either age.
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Even if these reviews can overcome theirconventionalitybias, results will still need to be assigned a priority for further investigation and investment.
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In this first chapter, examples of metaphors are used to introduce clines of metaphoricity in terms of degree of similarity, ofconventionality, of marking, of contradictoriness, and of explicitness.
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Even if the linguistic manifestation shows variation in itsconventionality, the underlying mapping remains constant across the different instances, allowing speakers to process each of these instances with ease.
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For the exclusive legal positivist, theconventionalityof law is compromised whenever the r ule of recognition conditions legal validity on the moral superiority or acceptability of a norm.
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Scales for children and adolescents measured five major aspects of the youngster's personality, behavior, and attitudes:conventionality, control of emotions, ego integration, pathology, and perception of school achievement.
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Not only does this suggest theconventionalityof icons, but it emphasizes the constant presence of the female body as capital in an economy of signification and power.
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The returning avenger is a parody of everything she had ever dreamed of in terms of an audacious indulgence of life and a transgression of bourgeois conformity andconventionality.
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All they that pass by wag their heads and mourn at her conventionalities her respectabilities, her lack of discernment of the signs of the times.
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