conservatismnoun [ U ]
uk/kənˈsɜː.və.tɪ.zəm/us/kənˈsɝː.və.tɪ.zəm/the quality of not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- go/swim against the tide idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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Examples from literature
- But all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.
- He disliked what he called its bourgeois conservatism.
- I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
- She was New England austerity and conservatism embodied.
- The dominant feeling both in East and West was one of dislike to change, which we may conveniently call conservatism.