conventionalization

American  

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

noun

plural

conventionalization

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

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Other Word Forms

• deconventionalization noun

Example Sentences

The continuance of the stage villain is worthy of some note beyond its evidence of conventionalization.

From Project Gutenberg

Forever debarred all the wider possibilities of movement and poetry these would have given them for interior decoration, Moorish art necessarily stagnated to mere conventionalization of floral and natural subjects.

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Amongst Moslems and Orientals this conventionalization as to dress has never been introduced.

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

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Was the conventionalization of the octopus design much more ancient than the earliest Trojan examples of the symbol?

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