If you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not-too-distant future he would be considered one of the top hundred movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to become a priest.
plural conformists. Learner's definition of CONFORMIST. [count] often disapproving. : a person who behaves in a way that is considered acceptable by most people and who avoids doing things that could be considered different or unusual : a person who conforms. They went from being angry punk rockers to bland conformists.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. The definition of conformance is behaving, dressing or otherwise modeling yourself in accordance with expectations or prevailing ideas and attitudes. When everyone wears a certain style of clothing and you begin to wear that clothing too, this is an example of conformance.