conservative vs neoteric

conservative

noun
  • A social conservative. 

  • A fiscal conservative. 

  • One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country. 

  • A person who favors maintenance of the status quo. 

  • A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy. 

adj
  • Tending to resist change or innovation. 

  • Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity. 

  • Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. 

  • Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment) 

  • Based on pessimistic assumptions. 

  • Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense. 

  • Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism. 

  • Relating to the Conservative Party. 

  • Cautious, moderate. 

  • Relating to Conservative Judaism. 

neoteric

noun
  • Someone with new or modern ideas. 

  • any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius. 

  • A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer). 

adj
  • Modern, new-fangled. 

  • New; recent. 

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