traditionalism

Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal, Wikipedia.

tra·di·tion·al·ism

(trə-dĭsh′ə-nə-lĭz′əm)

1. Adherence to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practice.

2. A system holding that all knowledge is derived from original divine revelation and is transmitted by tradition.

tra·di′tion·al·ist adj. & n.

tra·di′tion·al·is′tic adj.

traditionalism

(trəˈdɪʃənəˌlɪzəm)

1. (Philosophy) the doctrine that all knowledge originates in divine revelation and is perpetuated by tradition

2. adherence to tradition, esp in religion

traˈditionalist n, adj

traˌditionalˈistic adj

tra•di•tion•al•ism

(trəˈdɪʃ ə nlˌɪz əm)

n.

1. adherence to tradition as authority, esp. in matters of religion.

2. the doctrine that knowledge of religious truth is derived from divine revelation and received by traditional instruction.

[1855–60]

tra•di′tion•al•ist, n., adj.

traditionalism

adherence to tradition, rather than to revelation, independent Bible study, or individual reasoning, as the authority controlling religious knowledge and practice. — traditionalist, n. — traditionalistic, adj.

traditionalism

[trəˈdɪʃnəlɪzəm] N → tradicionalismo m

traditionalism

[trəˈdɪʃ^ən^əlɪzəm] n → traditionalisme m

traditionalism

n → Festhalten nt → am Alten, Traditionalismus m

traditionalism

[trəˈdɪʃnəˌlɪz/əm] n → tradizionalismo

References in classic literature ?

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.

View in context

As Maya attempts to balance her parents' traditionalism with her own modern outlook, a terrorist attack in Chicago inspires violent anti-Muslim sentiment in Maya's neighborhood, tying personal perspectives into a larger global picture.

LOVE, HATE AND OTHER FILTERS

The results supported these hypotheses, finding Traditionalism and HS to be the primary factors related to interpretation choice.

Power, Sexism, and Gender: Factors in Biblical Interpretation

As the eminent sociologist Peter Berger has "confessed" in several recent volumes, the world has become "re-enchanted" and he erred when he earlier believed that modernity was the solvent in which religious traditionalism would inexorably disappear.

Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History

While such festivals expect contemporary commissions to adhere to a strict criteria of cutting edge compositional and aesthetic techniques, they expect the exact opposite from oriental work: to maintain its orientalism and traditionalism, and stick to stereotypes that freeze the Arab past in sterile molds incapable of interacting with the present.

This non-Arab music is more popular in Lebanon than in other country

Contract awarded for Goemok zones synthesis maintenance business units Multipurpose Cultural Center and traditionalism cheheomjang Fire Ltd.

Goemok Zones Synthesis Maintenance Business Units Multipurpose Cultural Center And Traditionalism Cheheomjang Fire Ltd

She covers ecoprophecy, landscape and the self, prophecy and eternal recurrence, solitary hero versus social man in Jeffers' Dear Judas and Yeats' Calvary, rationalism and the great memory of the world, and radical traditionalism.

Towers of Myth & Stone: Yeats's Influence on Robinson Jeffers

The film centers on a cross-generational family feud among Iranian Jewish men, which unfolds in the Israeli agricultural village Ayanot (doubling as Zerahia, a village first settled predominantly by Iranian immigrants) and whirls between issues of traditionalism, patriarchy, and the allure of America, within a newly acclimating immigrant narrative.

Israel's Academy Awards Entry is a Farsi-Language Film About an Iranian-Jewish Family Conflict

Those seduced by the idea of seamless living in one glass space are now scuttling back under the protective hem of traditionalism and opting for a separate entertaining area.

Designer CHIC; Ever wondered what Laurence Llewelyn- Bowen's house looks like? GABRIELLE FAGAN takes a peek into the homes of interior designers and steals their styles

As Starliper puts it, Viereck blames fraudulent conservatives for an itinerant traditionalism and liberals for romantic misconceptions of human character.

Aesthetic Origins: Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Sources of Politics

Comprising six chapters, the author identifies and meticulously analyses dominant modes of group thought, namely religious traditionalism and dakwah revivalism, and their impact.

Contemporary Islamic Discourse in the Malay-Indonesian World: Critical Perspectives

But classical Marxism was too out of step, so historians created a hybrid type of early postwar narration, and used it as they remained on the lookout for progressive traditionalism.

Noun	1.	traditionalism - strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings traditionality orthodoxy - the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion) academicism, academism, scholasticism - orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
	2.	traditionalism - adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) adherence, adhesion, attachment - faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive" faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
	3.	traditionalism - the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory - a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy