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Convention vs Fauxhemian - What's the difference?

convention | fauxhemian |

As nouns the difference between convention and fauxhemian

is that convention is a meeting or gathering while fauxhemian is someone who adopts some aspects of a bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.

convention

English

(wikipedia convention)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A meeting or gathering.
    • The convention was held in Geneva.
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  • 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

    fauxhemian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
  • * 2006 , Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It , Doubleday (2006), ISBN 9780385518215, page 140:
    • A far cry from the tie-dyed life I pictured for him, squeezing out the last drops of the long-depleted Woodstock spirit with a bunch of fauxhemians a third his age who want to touch the hem of his garment (or, more likely, smoke him out) because he used to hang with Dylan.
  • * 2007 , Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-ball Odyssey , Riverhead Books (2007), ISBN 9781594489365, page 2:
    • The bar where we're playing — a dank little hole in Manhattan's East Village that attracts a following every three years or so when some young fauxhemian "discovers" the place and writes about it for Time Out New York'' or ''The Village Voice , usually under a catchy headline like "Dives We Love" — is quiet, almost empty if you don't count the regulars.
  • * 2013 , John Strausbaugh, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village , Ecco (2013), ISBN 9780062078209, unnumbered page:
    • By then many of the artists and writers who had generated all this interest had fled the Village and North Beach, abandoning them to the tourists and fauxhemians .