\Con*ven"tion*al*ism\, n.
1. 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 standart.     --F. W.
                                               Robertson.
2. (Fine Arts) The principles or practice of
   conventionalizing. See {Conventionalize}, v. t.