conventionalization

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From conventional +‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

conventionalization (countable and uncountable, plural conventionalizations) (American and Oxford British spelling)

  1. The act or process of rendering something conventional.
    • 1983 December 25, John Canaday, “TREASURES OF ILLUMINATION”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 January 2025:
      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.
    • 1987 November 29, “Linguistic Differences”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 January 2025:
      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.
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