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conventionalism

noun as in formality

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This opens up the whole question of realism versus conventionalism in art—a subject much too large to be treated here.

The old conventionalism has now altogether disappeared; there is an attempt to paint nature as she really is.

The rules of conventionalism have reared an adamantine partition wall between the two.

In the chapter on Industrial Exemption and Conservatism we are introduced to the reason of conventionalism and of its power.

His dislike of the effete conventionalism of the literary creed blended with his aversion to the political rule of the time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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