traditionalism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
noun adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
noun the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

From traditional + -ism.

He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, “in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress,” etc., etc. — Anna Karenina, Leo, graf Tolstoy

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