" die-hardism "

1: attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions;

  * e.g., " ... a professor of economics who regards himself as the lone bastion of political die-hardism on an overwhelmingly liberal campus "

•  Synonyms : 

•  conservatism,

•  conservativeness,

•  reactionaryism,

•  traditionalism,

•  ultraconservatism

•  Antonyms : 

•  broad-mindedness,

•  liberalism,

•  liberalness,

•  open-mindedness,

•  progressivism

1: tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions;

  * e.g., " ... the die-hard purists are never going to accept certain words, no matter who uses them "

•  Synonyms : 

•  archconservative,

•  brassbound,

•  button-down,

•  conservative,

•  hidebound,

•  mossbacked,

•  old-fashioned,

•  old-line,

•  old-school,

•  orthodox,

•  paleoconservative,

•  reactionary,

•  standpat,

•  traditional,

•  traditionalistic,

•  ultraconservative,

•  unprogressive

•  Antonyms : 

•  broad-minded,

•  large-minded,

•  liberal,

•  nonconservative,

•  nonconventional,

•  nonorthodox,

•  nontraditional,

•  open-minded,

•  progressive,

•  unconventional,

•  unorthodox