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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abnegation, abstinence, backwardness, calm, calmness, conservativeness, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, evenness, fogyism, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, laissez-faireism, lenity, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, old school tie, old-fashionedness, pacifism, political conservatism, prudence, repose, resistance to change, restraint, rightism, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, stability, standpattism, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, ultraconservatism, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unprogressiveness, via media

Dictionary Results for conservatism:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

conservatism
    n 1: a political or theological orientation advocating the
         preservation of the best in society and opposing radical
         changes [syn: conservatism, conservativism]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Conservatism \Con*serv"a*tism\, n. [For conservatism.]
   The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established;
   opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a
   conservative.
   [1913 Webster]

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