| 单词 |
conventionality |
| 释义 |
conventionality|kənvɛnʃəˈnælɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity.]
1. The quality or state of being conventional; conventional character or style; obedience to mere convention (in conduct or art).
1842G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 341 Its plain sense in the familiar conventionality of language. 1846Poe A. C. Mowatt Wks. 1864 III. 43 The hack conventionality of the stage. 1875Farrar Seekers iii. i. 269 The conventionality of modern life.
2. A conventional thing or practice.
a1834Lamb Let. to Coleridge (L.), It is strong and sturdy writing; and breaks up a whole legion of conventionalities. 1881W. Collins Bl. Robe I. 9 He hated those trivial conventionalities of society in which other people delight.
b. the conventionalities: all that is conventionally regarded by society as fit and proper. (Cf. the proprieties.)
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xviii. (1860) 199/1 A man who sacrificed scarce anything to the conventionalities. 1886Pall Mall G. 3 Sept. 3/2 Dwellers in great capitals are abject slaves of the conventionalities. |
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