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to conventionalize

to conventionalize

7.5
To make something follow the usual rules or styles used by a group
  • verb
  • /kənˈvɛnʃənəˌlaɪz/
translation icon : convencionalizar
  • As our tour continues, the Baroque itself becomes conventionalized, and we wander disconsolate through acres of 18th- and 19th-century Italian art.
  • highly conventionalized
  • become conventionalized

Examples

  • It is impossible, however, to conventionalize pictorial representation to the same degree as linguistic representation.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Much pointing has also become stereotyped or "conventionalized," the particular culture requiring use, say, of the first or the middle finger, or the head, or the lips.

    Academic text (2001)

  • But the way of capturing it has been conventionalized.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Graphic image, in conventionalized form, is completely abandoned in the Great Mandala.

    Academic text (2015)

  • On the screen appeared a tree, conventionalized in greens and blues, and each leaf was a tongue of fire.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • As far as I know, there is no case in which civilized language has conventionalized the use of silence in phonology.

    Academic text (2006)

  • These connections are severed when those marks are conventionalized and dissociated from the phenomenal.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Designed to redress dissatisfaction with the damage and image of nuclear explosions, these films also normalize and conventionalize the event of detonation.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Benjamin understood gestus as a fundamentally social form of communication: it was not spontaneous or expressive but rigorously conventionalized and thus deeply social.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Many traditional ceremonies have been conventionalized to fit modern standards.

Synonyms

to standardize
vsto conventionalize
  • US
83 4.2

To make things the same by using one set of rules

follows customary styles and social norms rather than formal rules
to normalize
vsto conventionalize
  • US
35 4.1

Make something usual or bring it back to its usual state

pushes toward established customs and traditional styles rather than mere commonness
to institutionalize
vsto conventionalize
  • US
16 7.1

Make something a regular and accepted part of a system or group

favours common customs and styles instead of official system adoption
to regularize
vsto conventionalize
1 6.4

To make something follow rules or standards

seeks to follow habitual customs and styles rather than imposed regularity
to canonicalize
vsto conventionalize
  • Specialized
7.8

To change data into a single standard form

aims at following general customs and styles rather than technical standardized form

Antonyms

to innovate
39 5.5

Bring in new ideas or ways of doing things

How Conventional

to standardize
  • US
83 4.2
to conventionalize
7.5
to modify
268 3.2
to adapt
178 3.2
to innovate
39 5.5

Surface Forms

conventionalize infinitive
conventionalized past
conventionalized past participle
conventionalizing present participle
conventionalizes third person singular

Morphology

conventionalize = conventional (transparent) = convention + al + ize

The word clearly means 'make conventional' by adding the productive suffix '-ize' to the adjective 'conventional'.

Etymology

Conventionalize comes from convention, a word for an 'agreement' or the 'usual way' people do things, and the ending -ize which means 'make'. So, to conventionalize something is to 'make' it follow the usual rules or style.