traditionalist

English

Etymology

From traditional +‎ -ist.

Noun

traditionalist (plural traditionalists)

1. A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices.
   • 1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:

     Pullman traditionalists will no doubt maintain that the full-service-at-every-seat principle is popular with their clientele; [...].

2. A person who believes in the traditional teaching of Hell (Gehenna) as eternal conscious torment (ECT) for the wicked.
3. (climbing) A traditional climbing climber.

Antonyms

• annihilationist
• conditionalist
• destructionist
• reformer
• reformist

Derived terms

• neotraditionalist
• neo-traditionalist
• paleotraditionalist
• paleo-traditionalist
• traditionalistic
• ultratraditionalist
• ultra-traditionalist

 

Related terms

• tradition
• traditional
• traditionalise
• traditionalism
• traditionalistical
• traditionalistically
• traditionality
• traditionalize
• traditionally
• traditionarily
• traditionary
• traditionism
• traditionist
• traditionistic
• traditionistically

 

Translations

one who adheres to tradition

• Catalan: tradicionalista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳統主義者／传统主义者, 传统主义者 (chuántǒng zhǔyìzhě)

• Danish: traditionalist c
• Finnish: traditionalistinen
• French: traditionaliste (fr) m or f
• German: Traditionalist m, Traditionalistin f
• Italian: tradizionalista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 伝統主義者 (でんとうしゅぎしゃ, dentō shugisha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tradisjonalist m

  Nynorsk: tradisjonalist m

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• Polish: tradycjonalista (pl) m, tradycjonalistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tradicionalista m or f
• Russian: традиционали́ст (ru) m (tradicionalíst), традиционали́стка (ru) f (tradicionalístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: традиционалист m

  Roman: tradicionalist (sh) m

• Spanish: tradicionalista m or f
• Swedish: traditionalist (sv) c