Crossword-Solution: CONVENTIONALISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Conventionalism | n. | That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. |
| Conventionalism | n. | The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CONVENTIONALISM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| utilisation | 61 answers |
| usefulness | 86 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "CONVENTIONALISM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
12 +2
New Suggestion for "CONVENTIONALISM"
Related word tools
Sentences with CONVENTIONALISM (5)
Through this sacred conventionalism Vesalius broke without fear; despite ecclesiastical censure, great opposition in his own profession, and popular fury, he studied his science by the only method that could give useful results.
Through this sacred conventionalism Niebuhr broke fearlessly, and, though at times overcritical, he struck from the early history of Rome a vast mass of accretions, and gave to the world a residue infinitely more valuable than the original amalgam of myth, legend, and chronicle.
But the chief profit of those wild days, to him and me, lay not in any definite idea, not in any angular or rounded truth, which we dug out of the shapeless mass of problematical stuff, but in the freedom which we thereby won from all custom and conventionalism and fettering influences of man on man.
The worthy magistrate who had been conversant with all degrees and qualities of mankind, could not but perceive every motion and gesture of the distinguished Feathertop came in its proper place; nothing had been left rude or native in him; a well-digested conventionalism had incorporated itself thoroughly with his substance and transformed him into a work of art.
CHAPTER II THE FALL OF THE MINGS It is almost a conventionalism to attribute the fall of a Chinese dynasty to the malign influence of eunuchs.
Quotes with CONVENTIONALISM (2)
As a matter of face, Zen is at present most fashionable in America among those who are least concerned with moral discipline. Zen has, indeed, become for us a symbol of moral revolt. It is true, the Zen-man's contempt for conventional and formalistic social custom is a healthy phenomenon, but it is healthy only because it presupposes a spiritual liberty based on freedom from passion, egotism and self-delusion. A pseudo-Zen attitude which seeks to justify a complete moral coll…
Rarely do wonder tales end unhappily. They triumph over death. The tale begins with "Once upon a time" or "Once there was" and never really ends when it ends. The ending is actually the beginning. The once upon a time is not a past designation but futuristic: the timelessness of the tale and its lack of geographical specificity endow it with utopian connotations - "utopia" in its original meaning designated "no place," a place that no one had ever envisaged. We form and keep …