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Conventionalism   Listen
noun
Conventionalism  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." "They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, wrapped in conventionalisms,... simulating feelings according to a received standard."
2.
(Fine Arts) The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.





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"Conventionalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... of antagonism born of cosmopolitan prejudice—an inability to value at its true worth a nature not moulded on conventional lines. Rigorous as he was in his judgments, and eager to disown what was cheap or shallow, mere conventionalism, whether in art or daily life, was no less abhorrent to him. Here, he said to himself, was an original soul, ignorant and unenlightened perhaps, but endowed with swift perception and ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... truth well stated. We have had enough of mere imported conventionalism in manners. Our usages should not be English or French usages, further than English and French usages are founded on universal principles. Politeness is the same everywhere and always, but the forms of etiquette must change with times and places; ...
— How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits • Samuel R Wells
... inexhaustible in suggestions of repose, of a subdued Sabbatic joy, a kind of sacred grace and refinement. And these elements of tranquillity, of repose, they unite to an intense and individual expression by a system of conventionalism as skilful and subtle as that of the Greeks, repressing all such curves as indicate solid form, and throwing the whole into ...
— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater
... you," answered Balder, with the quiet emphasis of conviction. How refreshing was it thus to set aside conventionalism! Her ingenuousness brought forth ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne
... at least, might form a more just idea of what women become," said Middleton, considerably piqued, "in a country where the roles of conventionalism are somewhat relaxed; where woman, whatever you may think, is far more profoundly educated than in England, where a few ill-taught accomplishments, a little geography, a catechism of science, make up the sum, under the superintendence of a governess; ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Conventionalism" :   unconventionality, unconventional, conventionality, convention, conventional, orthodoxy


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