conventionalization

The act or process of rendering something conventional.

Noun

  1. The act or process of rendering something conventional.
    • 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. -...
    • 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...

Origin

From conventional + -ization.

Forms

conventionalizations