conventionalization

American  

[kuhn-ven-shuhn-uhl-uh-zay-shuhn, kuhn-ven-shuhn-uhl-ahy-] / kənˌvɛn ʃən əl əˈzeɪ ʃən, kənˌvɛn ʃən əlˌaɪ- /

noun

• conventionalization
  plural

1. the act or process of making something more conventional or representing it in a conventional way.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• deconventionalization
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• conventionalization
  plural

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

conventionalization

All the arts are a conventionalization, an ordering of nature.

From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold

When children, in play, "make believe" that something exists, or exists in a certain way, they employ conventionalization.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

All the phenomena in Hindostan show how completely the moral effect depends on the integrity or decay of conventionalization.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

In all artistic work there is more or less conventionalization.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Here we see the mores raising a special conventionalization to protect a custom which is expedient, but which transgresses the usual taboo.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham