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.
conformities. 1  1 : correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement behaved in conformity with her beliefs. 2  2 : an act or instance of conforming her conformity with the latest fashions. 3  3 : action in accordance with some specified standard or authority conformity to social custom conformity with the federal law and state insurance codes.