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conservatism

 noun
     
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con‧ser‧va‧tis‧m [uncountable]
1 dislike of change and new ideas:
people's innate conservatism in matters of language
2 also ConservatismPPG the political belief that society should change as little as possible
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Conservatism

PPG the political beliefs of the British Conservative Party
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