conventionalization
- noun
- /kənˌvɛnʃənəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- The fashion industry often leads to the conventionalization of styles that everyone ends up following.
- marital conventionalization
- satisfaction and conventionalization
- adjustment and conventionalization
Examples
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In literature, the conventionalization of certain plot structures can make stories feel predictable.
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The artist's work reflects a conventionalization of traditional themes into modern forms.
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GB: But unfortunately, despite your efforts, that conventionalization seems to have happened.
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The second factor for wives contained only two conventionalization items, both of which loaded below .40.
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The marital conventionalization scale had the same underlying factor as marital satisfaction.
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Overall, these three studies seem to suggest that marital conventionalization is associated more with the quality of the marriage rather than representing a separate construct such as social desirability.
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For example, the tendency to describe the marital relationship in unrealistically positive terms is called marital conventionalization.
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Husbands and wives tend to report similar levels of marital satisfaction and conventionalization, especially among dissatisfied couples and couples with a high level of satisfaction.
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First, the common endorsement of items in marital conventionalization scales testifies to the tendency to see the partner and the marriage "through rose-colored glasses."
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Ordinarily, these scores are corrected for marital conventionalization using the Idealistic Distortion score.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
Making things follow the same rules so they match
Making rules so things are the same
Making something regular and the same in every part
Making different things follow the same rules
The act of making new rules for tests and tools that already have rules
Antonyms
How Conventional
Surface Forms
Morphology
conventionalization = conventionalize (transparent) = convention + al + ize + ation
The noun is formed by adding a standard nominalizing suffix '-ation' to the verb 'conventionalize', making the process meaning clear.
Etymology
Conventionalization comes from convention, a word that originally meant 'coming together' or 'an agreement', plus the ending -ization meaning 'the process of making'. So conventionalization is the process of making something fit the usual or agreed rules or styles.