conservatism
/kənˈsəːvətɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
1Commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation: proponents of theological conservatism...
- Its conservatism led patrons of modern art to look for alternatives.
- I think it says something about the conservatism of Australian producers.
- The dichotomy stems from his musical conservatism.
2The holding of political views that favour free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas: a party that espoused conservatism...
- All energy was put into judicial censoring action, finding allies within the Right, thereby showing a vehement conservatism within feminism.
- The political history of Portugal in the 20th century has done much to reinforce a deeply entrenched conservatism.
- He goes on to argue that the "new conservatism is being put into place through cultural rather than political strategies."
2.1 (Conservativism) The doctrines of the Conservative Party of Great Britain or a similar party elsewhere: the thrust of post-war Conservatism...
- A Conservative MP, he maintained in the 1920s that Conservatism was "above all things a spirit, not an abstract doctrine."
- That capture of a weakened Labour machine by the Left would not suffice to defeat the new Conservatism.
- He does not radiate the same enjoyment in scoring off the prime minister as he did when his main targets were the Crown and Conservatism.
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