conventionalism

English

Etymology

From conventional +‎ -ism.

Noun

conventionalism (usually uncountable, plural conventionalisms)

1. (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.
2. (countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint.
   • 1864 March 15, Frederick Denison Maurice, “To ____”, in The Life Of Frederick Denison Maurice‎^[1], volume 2, →ISBN, page 478:

     Having said this, you will not, I trust, suspect me of disliking you for throwing off conventionalisms and speaking to me as a man to a man.

3. (uncountable, philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions.
   • 2024 October 2, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 3, →DOI:

     Skepticism arrives at conventionalism by way of the claims that the conditions on evidential support cannot be satisfied […] but that we must have beliefs in order to carry on.

Related terms

• conventionalist

Translations

Adherence to social conventions

• Catalan: convencionalisme m
• Finnish: sovinnaisuus (fi), konventionalismi
• French: conventionnalisme m
• Italian: convenzionalismo m
• Polish: konwencjonalizm m
• Romanian: convenționalism (ro) n
• Spanish: convencionalismo (es) m

(philosophy)

• Finnish: konventionalismi
• German: Konventionalismus m
• Greek: συμβασιοκρατία (el) f (symvasiokratía)
• Polish: konwencjonalizm m
• Romanian: convenționalism (ro) n