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Conventionalized

adjective
1.
Using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous.  Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized.






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"Conventionalized" Quotes from Famous Books



... months and was not a fraternity man. There are so many coming and going! Nor that the faculty should be mindful of the lawless, irresponsible boy, and not of the genius that developed on its own lines and was never conventionalized but always remained a sinner however brilliant, and a flayer of good men unblessed with a saving sense of humor. If there is any kind thought for me in my old home it is because I did what Field couldn't do, paid outward respect to ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... and contain small objects carried about; the men of Quiangan wear their hair short, have nothing whatever of the nature of the pocket-hat, but have developed a unique hand bag which is used as a pocket. In the Quiangan area a highly conventionalized wood-carving art has developed — beautiful eating spoons with figures of men and women carved on the handles and food bowls cut in animal figures are everywhere found; while in Bontoc only the most crude and artless wood carving is made. In language there is such a difference ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks



Words linked to "Conventionalized" :   conventionalised, unreal, artificial



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