noun. Adherence or the tendency to adhere to conventional usages, regulations, and precedents; conventionality; formalism.

noun. That which is received or established by convention or agreement; a conventional phrase, form, ceremony, etc.; something depending on conventional rules and precepts.

noun. In anthropology, the tendency of human activities to lose their significance in the course of the development of culture, and to become conventional.

noun. In the fine arts, the tendency of realistic representations of animals, plants, and other natural forms to become more conventional; in the course of the development of decorative art, the tendency of realistic motives to change into geometrical forms.

noun. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.

noun. The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.

noun. Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior

noun. A conventional act or constraint

noun. The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions

noun. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

"Yes ... "conventionalism" is a better word for what I'm talking about simply because it immediately distances what I'm talking about from the quite separate but nonetheless interesting claim that fantasy as a literary form is institutionally racist."

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