conventionalization

plural conventionalizations · alternative conventionalisation

1. countableuncountableThe 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.

   1983 December 25, John Canaday, “TREASURES OF ILLUMINATION”, in The New York Times Magazine

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   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