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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 conservativeness, die-hardism, reactionaryism, traditionalism, ultraconservatism Related Words neoconservatism, Toryism; illiberalism; conventionalism, conventionality, fogyism (or fogeyism) Near Antonyms neoliberalism; extremism, radicalism; nonconformism, nonconformity, unconventionalism, unorthodoxy Antonyms broad-mindedness, liberalism, liberalness, open-mindedness, progressivism
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