Conventionalism

Definition: Conventionalism

Conventionalism

Noun

1. Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.

Date "conventionalism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Conventionalism

Synonyms: convention (n), conventionality (n). (additional references)

Antonym: unconventionality (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impulse	Prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette; (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude,.dustoor.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Conventionalism

English words defined with "conventionalism": Conventionalist. (references)

"Conventionalism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conventionalism" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	97	33,269

Language		Translations for "conventionalism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		konservatizëm (conservatism, conventionality). (various references)

Arabic		‏التقاليدية. (various references)

Bulgarian		условност (convention, provisionality), конвенционализъм. (various references)

Czech		konvencionalismus. (various references)

Finnish		sovinnaisuus. (various references)

French		conventionalisme. (various references)

German		Festhalten (adherence, capture, cling, detain, emphasize, held, hold, hold down, hold on, hold on to, holding, intern, keep hold of, record, retain, to hold down, to hold tight, to retain). (various references)

Greek		τυπικότησ (formality, modality, punctuallity, punctualness). (various references)

Hungarian		formalizmus (beadledom, formalism, formulism). (various references)

Italian		convenzionalismo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		旧套 (old style). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きゅうとう (former winters, hot water supply, jump, old style, sharp rise, sudden rise, the last winter). (various references)

Pig Latin		onventionalismcay

Portuguese		convencionalismo. (various references)

Romanian		convenţionalism (conventionality, grundysim). (various references)

Russian		условность (conventionality). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		konvencionalizam. (various references)

Spanish		convencionalismo (conventionality). (various references)

Swedish		konventionalism (formality). (various references)

Turkish		geleneksellik. (various references)

Ukrainian		рутинність, традиційність, конвенціоналізм. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuyết quy ước sự quá nệ tục lệ, sự quá nệ quy ước, sự quá nệ lễ nghi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "conventionalism": conventionalisms. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "conventionalism" (pronounced 'Con*ven"tion*al*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-o-o-s-t-v"
	-3 letters: conventional.
	-4 letters: conventions, innovations, intensional, invocations, mislocation, nominations, nominatives.
	-5 letters: anticlines, antimonies, antinomies, antinovels, antivenins, clintonias, coalitions, convention, evocations, innominate, innovation, insolation, inventions, invocation, lineations, melanistic, melatonins, militances, monoclines, monostelic, monovalent, mooncalves, nominalist, nomination, nominative, nonactions, nonelastic, nonnatives, nonviolent, novelistic, novocaines, omniscient, sonication, violations, vocalities.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-o-o-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: conventionalisms.
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Conventionalism

Definition: Conventionalism