conventionalization
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From conventional + -ization.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]conventionalization (countable and uncountable, plural conventionalizations)
- The act or process of rendering something conventional.
- 1983 December 25, John Canaday, “TREASURES OF ILLUMINATION”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
- 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]:
- 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.