Associations to the word «Conventionalism»

Wiktionary

CONVENTIONALISM, noun. (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
CONVENTIONALISM, noun. (countable) (obsolete) A conventional act or constraint
CONVENTIONALISM, noun. (uncountable) (philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions

Dictionary definition

CONVENTIONALISM, noun. Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King