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2. conventional, customary, accustomed, according to custom or use, usual, regular, standard, prevailing; conformist, traditionalist, in line, in step, in keeping, in accord; middle-class, bourgeois, middlebrow, middle-of-the-road, Inf. square, Inf. straight; fixed, established, set, cut-and-dried.
3. conservative, ultraconservative, right-wing, fundamentalist; purist, hidebound, creedbound, rigid, rigorous, strict, dogmatic; straitlaced, puritanical; obdurate, inflexible, unbending, unyielding, uncompromising.

orthodoxy, n. 1. religious belief, belief, faith, creed, credo; faith, true faith, truth, gospel truth, word of God; authoritativeness, authenticity, canonicalness, doctrinalness; soundness, correctness, accurateness, faithfulness, rightness, properness, trueness.
2. conformity, conformance, compliance, observance, obedience; conventionality, traditionalism; custom, tradition; line, keeping, step, accordance, agreement.
3. conservatism, ultraconservatism, fundamentalism, puritanism; purism, literalism, precisionism; straitlacedness, stiff-neckedness, hideboundness, creedboundness; firmness, strictness, rigidness, rigidity, rigorousness, stiffness; obduracy, inflexibility, uncompromisingness, unbendingness, unyieldingness.

oscillate, v. 1. vibrate, move to and fro, swing, move backward and forward, come and go, librate, move from side to side, ebb and flow, seesaw, wigwag. 2. fluctuate, vacillate, waver, vary, yo-yo, teeter-totter; about-face, change, change one's mind, Brit. Dial, chop, U.S. Inf. back and fill; shift, swerve, veer; hesitate, scruple, falter; be uncertain, be unsure, be doubtful, be undecided, be undetermined, not know one's own mind, not know where one stands, hang in the balance, hang; equivocate, shilly-shally, hem and haw, blow hot and cold, tergiversate, straddle the fence, be on the fence, be of two minds, debate.

oscillation, n. 1. vibration, vibrating, swing, swinging, Astron. libration, seesawing, wigwagging, coming and going, moving to and fro, moving backward and forward; ebb and flow, rise and fall, flux and reflux.
2. single swing, sway, wave, stroke, beat.
3. fluctuation, vacillation, wavering, instability, unsteadiness; change, variation, alternation; hesitation, ambivalence, irresolution, indecision, undecisiveness, uncertainty, infirmity of purpose; fickleness, changeableness; equivocation, shilly-shallying, blowing hot and cold, tergiversation, straddling the fence.

oscitant, adj. 1. drowsy, groggy, dozy, nodding, dozing, heavy-eyed, yawning; sleepy, sleeping, asleep, half-asleep, somnolent, slumberous, slumbery; off in a world of one's own, with one's head in the clouds, in the clouds, a million miles away; oblivious, detached, distracted, faraway, off guard, caught napping, inattentive.
2. sluggish, torpid, lethargic, lentitudinous, hebetu-dinous, phlegmatic, lymphatic; otiose, lazy, slow, lackadaisical, indolent; dull, drugged, dazed, Inf. dopey; lifeless, dormant, inactive, weary, listless.

osculate, v. 1. kiss, Inf. buss, Inf. smack, Inf. smooch, Inf. canoodle, Inf. make out, Inf. fool around, neck, Inf. park, bundle, Inf. spoon.
2. come into contact, be contiguous, touch, graze, skim, brush, rub; clasp, hug, embrace; meet, merge, blend, combine, inosculate; connect, join, adjoin, conjoin.