conventionality

[ kuh n-ven-shuh-nal-i-tee ]

/ kənˌvɛn ʃəˈnæl ɪ ti /

conventional quality or character.

adherence to convention.

a conventional practice, principle, form, etc.

conventionalities, conventional rules of behavior.

Origin of conventionality

First recorded in 1825–35; conventional + -ity

sem·i·con·ven·tion·al·i·ty, noun, plural sem·i·con·ven·tion·al·i·ties.

Grace had the stiff-necked Drummond pride as well as he, and would hesitate long behind the barriers of conventionality.

Not Like Other Girls |Rosa N. Carey
We have already agreed that conventionality ought sometimes to be dispensed with.

The Threatening Eye |Edward Frederick Knight
Young James was essentially a child of nature, and free from all conventionality.

Heroes of Science: Physicists |William Garnett
There is a quality of conventionality in the earlier of these which completely disappears in the later.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 |Various

The traditional formality and conventionality of the English are traditions only.

Private Peat |Harold R. Peat

conventionality

/ (kənˌvɛnʃəˈnælɪtɪ) /

the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc

(often plural) something conventional, esp a normal or accepted rule of behaviour; propriety