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Definition of "neoconservatism" []

  • An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: "The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s” ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "neoconservatism" in a sentence
  • "The term neoconservatism was created by the socialist writer Michael Harrington in the early 1970s."
  • "In other words, neoconservatism is a Jewish movement and Jews are responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the problems which they have caused for all countries involved."
  • "# Obama means well, but is utterly unable to work against the residual neoconservatism from the stay-behinds in the Pentagon."