| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, conventionality, docility, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness |
| Antonyms: | difference, fight, noncomformity, refusal |
| Concept: | Conformity. |
| Category: | 5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES |
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-nouns
conformity, conformance; observance; habituation., naturalization; conventionality (custom); agreement., example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation., standard, model, pattern (prototype)., rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.
-verbs
conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to; rub off corners., be regular; move in a groove; follow the rules, observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom, fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track (habit); keep one in countenance., exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance; elucidate, explain.
-adjectives
conformable to rule; regular; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en regle, selon Ies, reges, well regulated, orderly; symmetric., conventional (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday., in the order of the day; naturalized.
-adverbs
conformably; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more majorum., for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake, by the card., invariably, (uniformly) [more]., for example, for instance; exempli gratia; e. g.; inter alia.
-phrases
cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Erasmus]; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down" [Japanese saying];
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| Antonyms: | nonconformity |
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| Main Entry: | accommodation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjustment for different situation, circumstances |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, compliance, composition, compromise, conformity, fifty-fifty deal, fitting, modification, reconciliation, settlement |
| Main Entry: | accord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, mutual understanding (often written) |
| Synonyms: | 10-4, accordance, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity, congruence, correspondence, deal, good vibes, good vibrations, harmony, okay, pact, rapport, reconciliation, sympathy, treaty, unanimity |
| Notes: | something (a quality) is in accord with something else; something acts in accordance with something else (an activity) |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, denial, disagreement, dissension, opposition, refusal |
| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, giving in, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, submissiveness, yielding |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | agreement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concurrence |
| Synonyms: | acceding, accession, accommodation, accord, accordance, acknowledging, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, alliance, amity, approving, arbitration, arrangement, assenting, authorizing, bargaining, compatibility, compliance, complying, compromise, concert, concession, concord, concordance, concurring, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, endorsing, granting, harmony, mediation, ratifying, reconciliation, similarity, suitableness, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, verification, verifying |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | ceremony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | etiquette |
| Synonyms: | ceremonial, conformity, decorum, form, formal courtesy, formalism, formality, nicety, politeness, pomp, preciseness, prescription, propriety, protocol, strictness, usage |
| Main Entry: | coexistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening or being at same time, place |
| Synonyms: | accord, coetaneousness, coevality, coincidence, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, contemporaneousness, harmony, order, peace, simultaneousness, synchronicity |
| Main Entry: | coherence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | adherence, attachment, bond, cementation, cling, clinging, comprehensibility, concordance, conformity, congruity, connection, consistency, consonance, construction, continuity, correspondence, inseparability, inseparableness, integrity, intelligibility, rationality, relations, solidarity, stickage, tenacity, union, unity |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incoherence, incongruity, nonsense, unintelligibility |