conventionalization

English

Etymology

From conventional +‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

conventionalization (countable and uncountable, plural conventionalizations)

1. The act or process of rendering something conventional.
   • 1983 December 25, John Canaday, “TREASURES OF ILLUMINATION”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     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:

     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.