Conventionalization

Quick meaning: Conventionalization is a noun meaning The act or process of rendering something conventional.

Meaning

The act or process of rendering something conventional.

Example Sentences

Every aspect of Renaissance realism seemed calculated to outmode the medieval illuminators' pictorial vocabulary with its miniature dimensions - two-dimensional patterning and conventionalizations of natural forms.

Once this crucial distinction is recognized, the examples cited in Ms. Countryman's review lose their malignant aura and are seen to instantiate a phenomenon common to all languages and dialects: ambiguity or underdetermination of meaning in the absence of adequate context or conventionalization.

Word Forms

• conventionalizations

Synonyms for conventionalization

Depending on context, synonyms include stylization, stylisation, conventionalisation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conventionalisation, stylisation, stylization, consensualization, conformation, consensualisation.

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