Concordance vs Conformity - What's the difference?
concordance | conformity |
agreement; accordance; consonance
* (rfdate)
(grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
* c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
(computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
State of things being similar or identical.
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
State of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
As nouns the difference between concordance and conformity
is that concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance while conformity is state of things being similar or identical.concordance
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(wikipedia concordance)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Contrasts, and yet concordances .
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
conformity
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Noun
- How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -
