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noun
The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The continuation of theological rituals on the basis that the ritual has always completed, rather than the ritual being a manifestation of theology.
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noun
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.
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noun
adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: attachment, adherence, adhesion
noun
strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: traditionality
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Broader terms: orthodoxy
Narrower terms: scholasticism, academicism, academism
noun
the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
History
Etymology tree English tradition English -al English traditional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English traditionalism From traditional + -ism.
Across languages
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