1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. traditionalism

Find the word definition

What is "traditionalism"

Crossword clues for traditionalism

traditionalism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traditionalism
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the mid-sixties, Nietzsche's traditionalism seems even to have stiffened: certainly his attitude towards anything Wagnerian became explicitly antipathetic.
▪ Henceforth modernism would be the star of western art while traditionalism was increasingly ignored.
▪ I do want a soft blend of ritual traditionalism with friends and family.
▪ It is typically equated with the traditionalism of figures like De Bonald and Lammenais.
▪ M'ARS specialise in a distinctive form of traditionalism, close to surrealism.
▪ The social institutions of traditionalism, such as religion and ideology, can also be seen as deformed, pathological modes of communication.
▪ They rejected both scientism and traditionalism.
▪ Without this dynamic process, tradition stagnates into a fixation of habit, traditionalism, bringing about its death or rejection.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traditionalism

Traditionalism \Tra*di"tion*al*ism\, n. A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.

Wiktionary
traditionalism

n. 1 The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters. 2 A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.

WordNet
traditionalism

  1. n. strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings [syn: traditionality]

  2. adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)

  3. the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

Wikipedia
Traditionalism

Traditionalism may refer to a systematic emphasis on the value of tradition, especially those beliefs, moral codes and mores known as traditional values. It may also refer to:

Traditionalism (religion)

Traditionalism, in religious contexts, refers to upholding or maintenance of tradition, i.e. orthodox doctrines in opposition to a perceived heterodoxy and contemporary ideology.

Usage examples of "traditionalism".

Those garishly floodlighted Gothic buildings seemed for the moment to symbolize a whole world of barren intellectual competition and jealous traditionalism, a world which at the moment lie felt to be infinitely alien.

In normal times, there would have been fruit and food among the offerings, but with war shortages Otake-san tempered his traditionalism with common sense.

What she was inferring threatened, in short, the demolition of virtually all traditionalism and the systems of authority based on it.

Fortunately for mankind the two fundamental evils of traditionalism were just sufficient to neutralize each other during this long period of the incubation of the Modern State.

Horseclansmen, he began to first question, then stringently criticize blind Ehleen traditionalism in his own mind, think things through, then set down conclusions and work out solutions to existing problems.

Mark and Annie had a strong streak of English traditionalism in them, and never was it more apparent than when Annie put a joint of beef or a leg of lamb on the Sunday table.

Ptolemy, the inaction and traditionalism of the Arabs, and the elaborate falsities of story tellers, who, in the absence of real knowledge, had a grand opening for terrible fairy tales.

Ozark traditionalism, but his patronizing attitude toward women did not prevent the New Deal that he offered workers from outgrowing its initially expedient aims and taking deep root within the company.

If it is true that he is a Jew, then his traditionalism is but one more brilliant instance of the power of France to adopt the children of alien races and make them more intensely her own than some of her proper offspring.