Conventionalization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of rendering something conventional. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

From conventional + -ization.

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