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, ultraconservatismRelated Words neoconservatism, Toryism; illiberalism; conventionalism, conventionality, fogyism (or fogeyism)Near Antonyms neoliberalism; extremism, radicalism; nonconformism, nonconformity, unconventionalism, unorthodoxyAntonyms broad-mindedness, liberalism, liberalness, open-mindedness, progressivism