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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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

All the artifice and

conventionalism

of life.

Hawthorne.

They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, – wrapped in

conventionalisms

, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standard.

F. W. Robertson.

(Fine Arts)

The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See

Verb.

conventionalism ‎(usually uncountable, plural conventionalisms)

(uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
(countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint
- 1864 March 15, Frederick Denison Maurice, “To ____”, in The Life Of Frederick Denison Maurice, volume 2, ISBN 1428661921, page 478:
  Having said this, you will not, I trust, suspect me of disliking you for throwing off conventionalisms and speaking to me as a man to a man.
(uncountable, philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions
- 2016 October 2, (Please provide the title of the work), volume 140, number 3, DOI:10.1007/s11098-007-9152-6:
  Skepticism arrives at conventionalism by way of the claims that the conditions on evidential support cannot be satisfied […] but that we must have beliefs in order to carry on.

Adherence to social conventions