die-hardism

die–hardism

noun

Definition of DIE-HARDISM

attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions <a professor of economics who regards himself as the lone bastion of political die-hardism on an overwhelmingly liberal campus>

Synonyms conservativeness, die-hardism, reactionaryism, traditionalism, ultraconservatism

Related Words neoconservatism, Toryism; bigotry, illiberalism; conventionalism, conventionality, fogyism (or fogeyism)

Near Antonyms neoliberalism; extremism, radicalism; nonconformism, nonconformity, unconventionalism, unorthodoxy

Antonyms broad-mindedness, liberalism, liberalness, open-mindedness, progressivism