Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conventionalism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conventionalism \Con*ven"tion*al*ism\, n.
1. That which is received or established by convention or
arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the
fashion, tradition, or usage.
All the artifice and conventionalism of life.
--Hawthorne.
They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in
conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings
according to a received standart. --F. W.
Robertson.
2. (Fine Arts) The principles or practice of
conventionalizing. See {Conventionalize}, v. t.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conventionalism
n : orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: {conventionality},
{convention}] [ant: {unconventionality}]
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