Synonyms of conservatism

conservatism

noun

kən-ˈsər-və-ˌti-zəm 

as in conservativeness

attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions

the state's well-known conservatism means that progressive legislation always has an uphill battle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• conservativeness
• traditionalism
• ultraconservatism
• reactionaryism
• neoconservatism
• Toryism
• bigotry
• die-hardism
• illiberalism
• fogeyism
• conventionalism
• fogyism
• conventionality

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liberalism
• progressivism
• neoliberalism
• radicalism
• extremism
• liberalness
• open-mindedness
• broad-mindedness
• nonconformity
• unorthodoxy
• nonconformism
• unconventionalism

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of conservatism

Republicans represented Reagan’s three-legged stool of small-government fiscal conservatism, the religious right and foreign policy hawks. —Nate Cohn, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024

The debates on conservatism 20 years ago do not seem very different from today's disputes among freedom conservatives, national conservatism, and other similar political philosophies. —Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others. —Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024

Mann, nearing 50, vacillated, hoping to salvage the old conservatism from the new extremism. —George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024