- adherence to or advocacy of conventional attitudes or practices.
- something conventional, as an expression or attitude.
- the view that fundamental principles are validated by definition, agreement, or convention.
- advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
- something conventional
- a theory that moral principles are not enshrined in the nature of things but merely reflect customary practice
- the theory that meaning is a matter of convention and thus that scientific laws merely reflect such general linguistic agreement