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Noun: conventionality  kun,ven-shu'na-li-tee
  1. Conformity with conventional thought and behaviour
     
  2. Unoriginality as a result of being too conventional
     
  3. Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
    - convention, conventionalism

Derived forms: conventionalities

See also: conventional, unconventional

Type of: conformism, conformity, orthodoxy, unoriginality

Antonym: unconventionality

Encyclopedia: Conventionality