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Conservatism Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilizati ...
is a set of political philosophies that favour tradition. Conservatism or conservative may also refer to: *
Linguistic conservatism In linguistics, a conservative form, variety, or feature of a language is one that has changed relatively little across the language's history, or which is relatively resistant to change. It is the opposite of innovative, innovating, or advanced ...
, a language form that has changed relatively little over its history * Conservatism (belief revision), a cognitive bias in Bayesian belief revision * Conservative interval, a confidence interval whose actual
coverage probability In statistics, the coverage probability is a technique for calculating a confidence interval which is the proportion of the time that the interval contains the true value of interest. For example, suppose our interest is in the mean number of mon ...
is greater than a desired nominal coverage probability * Conservatism (diving), a risk averse approach to decompression practice *
Convention of conservatism In accounting, the convention of conservatism, also known as the doctrine of prudence, is a policy of anticipating possible future losses but not future gains. This policy tends to understate rather than overstate net assets and net income, and ...
, a policy in accounting of anticipating possible future losses but not future gains *
Epistemic conservatism Epistemic conservatism is a view in epistemology about the structure of reasons or justification for belief A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term "beli ...
, a view about the structure of reasons or justification for belief *
Conservative force In physics, a conservative force is a force with the property that the total work done in moving a particle between two points is independent of the path taken. Equivalently, if a particle travels in a closed loop, the total work done (the sum ...
, a physical force whose work is path-independent *
Conservative vector field In vector calculus, a conservative vector field is a vector field that is the gradient of some function. A conservative vector field has the property that its line integral is path independent; the choice of any path between two points does not c ...
, a vector field that is the gradient of some function *''
The Conservative ''The Conservative'' was a weekly newspaper devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions published in Nebraska City, Nebraska, by Julius Sterling Morton. History ''The Conservative'' was first issued on July 14, 18 ...
'', an American weekly journal published from 1898 to 1902 *'' Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition'', a 2017 book by Roger Scruton


See also

* * * Conservative Christianity * Conservative movement (disambiguation) *
Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...
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List of conservative parties by country Many countries have political parties that are deemed to represent conservative, center-right, right wing, or Tory views, and which may be referred to informally as conservative parties even if not explicitly named so. Those parties are listed ...
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Conservation (disambiguation) Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws. Conservation may also refer to: Environment and natural resources * Nature conservation, the protection and manageme ...
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Conserve (disambiguation) Conserve may refer to: * Conserve (condiment), a preserve made from a mixture of fruits or vegetables * Conserve (NGO), an Indian environmental organization * Conserve (publisher), a Dutch publisher * Conserved sequence, a protein or nucleic acid ...
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Progressive Conservative (disambiguation) Progressive Conservative may refer to an advocate of progressive conservatism. Progressive Conservative may also refer to: Canada * Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a former Canadian federal party; a successor of the original Conserv ...
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Conservative Judaism Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti Judaism outside North America, is a Jewish religious movement which regards the authority of ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and traditions as coming primarily from its people and community through the generatio ...
, a branch of Judaism that began in the early 1900s *
Conservative Friends Conservative Friends are members of a certain branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In the United States of America, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings, Ohio, North Carolina, and Iowa. English Friends affiliated wi ...
, members of a certain branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) *
Traditionalist conservatism Traditionalist conservatism, often known as classical conservatism, is a political and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of transcendent moral principles, manifested through certain natural laws to which society should adhere ...
, a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order *
National conservatism National conservatism is a nationalist variant of conservatism that concentrates on upholding national and cultural identity. National conservatives usually combine nationalism with conservative stances promoting traditional cultural values, ...
, a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests and traditional social/ethical views *
Centre-right politics Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and me ...
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