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conventionalization en · NOUN

Etymology

From conventional + -ization.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of rendering something conventional.
   • 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. 1987 November 29, “Linguistic Differences”, in The New York Times:
   • 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. 1983 December 25, John Canaday, “TREASURES OF ILLUMINATION”, in The New York Times Magazine:

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