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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In a twist of irony for Japan’s likely first female prime minister, her conservatism may not bode well for gender equality issues.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Kirk was the co-founder of Turning Point USA, which was formed to foster a culture of conservatism on school campuses around the nation.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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