different between harmony vs conformity

English

Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk

     America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

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Further reading

• harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle French conformité

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?f??m?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?f??m?ti/
• Hyphenation: con?for?mi?ty

Noun

conformity (countable and uncountable, plural conformities)

1. The state of things being similar or identical.

   Synonyms: homogeneity, uniformity; see also Thesaurus:uniformity

2. A point of resemblance; a similarity.
3. The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.

   Synonyms: compliance, conformance; see also Thesaurus:conformity

4. The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.

Usage notes

• Sometimes used interchangeably with conformation.

Antonyms

• nonconformity

Related terms

• conform
• conformance
• conformism

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References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “conformity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN