as in conservativeness
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the region's entrenched reactionaryism made it one of the major battlegrounds for the civil rights movement in the 1960s
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conservatism
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Groypers view traditional conservatism as being too moderate and believe shifting racial and cultural demographics pose an existential threat to white Americans, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
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The movement had been at odds with Kirk’s brand of conservatism for some time.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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