Opposition to or rejection of established customs, social traditions, or conventional practices.
Combines 'anti-' (against) + 'convention' (from Latin 'conventio,' meaning assembly or agreement). Convention originally meant a meeting, then came to mean agreed-upon practices.
Social conventions are invisible until someone breaks them—then suddenly you notice them! Artists and rebels have always known this, which is why anticonvention movements make us aware of rules we didn't know we were following.
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