Assimilationnoun
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
Conformitynoun
The state of things being similar or identical.
Assimilationnoun
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
Conformitynoun
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
Assimilationnoun
(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
Conformitynoun
The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
Assimilationnoun
(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
Conformitynoun
The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
Assimilationnoun
The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Conformitynoun
Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; - followed by to, with, or between.
‘By our conformity to God.’; ‘The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God.’; ‘A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste.’;
Assimilationnoun
The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
‘To aspire to an assimilation with God.’; ‘The assimilation of gases and vapors.’;
Conformitynoun
Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.
‘The king [James I.] soon afterward put forth a proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civil officers to do their duty by enforcing conformity.’;
Assimilationnoun
The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
‘Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation.’;
Conformitynoun
correspondence in form or appearance
Assimilationnoun
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
Conformitynoun
acting according to certain accepted standards
Assimilationnoun
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Conformitynoun
orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
Assimilationnoun
the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
Conformitynoun
concurrence of opinion;
‘we are in accord with your proposal’;
Assimilationnoun
a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
Conformitynoun
hardened conventionality
Assimilationnoun
the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
Conformity
Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like-minded. Norms are implicit, specific rules, shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others.
Assimilationnoun
in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
Assimilationnoun
the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
‘the assimilation of the knowledge of the Greeks’;
Assimilationnoun
the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture
‘the assimilation of Italians into American society’;
Assimilationnoun
the absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system
‘nitrate assimilation usually takes place in leaves’;
Assimilationnoun
the process of becoming similar to something
‘Watson was ready to work for the assimilation of Scots law to English law where he thought it was justified’;
Assimilationnoun
the fact of a sound being made more like another in the same or next word
‘there are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels’; ‘when p is preceded by some Latin prefixes, it is doubled because of the assimilation of a consonant, as in 'apparent' (ad-parent)’;
