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Convention vs Conventionalism - What's the difference?

convention | conventionalism |

As nouns the difference between convention and conventionalism

is that convention is a meeting or gathering while conventionalism is (uncountable) adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.

convention

English

(wikipedia convention)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A meeting or gathering.
    • The convention was held in Geneva.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 30 , author=Katherine Stewart , title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.}}
  • A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
    • ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
  • The convening of a formal meeting
  • A formal agreement, contract or pact
  • (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
    • ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
  • A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
  • *
    • In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
    placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
    (40)      VP → V AP (PP)
    (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
    optional.)
    ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
    The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

    Derived terms

    * by convention * coding conventions * conventional, conventionally * conventionalize * conventioneer * convention centre, convention center * naming convention * pictorial convention * trade convention

    Related terms

    * convener * convent * convenient * conventicle

    conventionalism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
  • (countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint
  • *{{quote-book, 1864, date=March 15, author=Frederick Denison Maurice, chapter=To ____, title=The Life Of Frederick Denison Maurice, volume=2, page=478 citation
    • , passage=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
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, date=October 2, Andrew D. Cling, The epistemic regress problem, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9152-6, volume=140, issue=3, pages=
    • , passage=Skepticism arrives at conventionalism by way of the claims that the conditions on evidential support cannot be satisfied

    Related terms

    * conventionalist