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die-hardism

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of die-hardism

conservatism, conservativeness, reactionaryism, traditionalism, ultraconservatism
Words Related to die-hardism

neoconservatism, Toryism

bigotry, illiberalism

conventionalism, conventionality, fogyism (or fogeyism)
Near Antonyms of die-hardism

neoliberalism

extremism, radicalism

nonconformism, nonconformity, unconventionalism, unorthodoxy
Antonyms of die-hardism

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

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