Definition of Reactionary. Meaning of Reactionary. Synonyms of Reactionary

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Definition of Reactionary

Reactionary
Reactionary Re*ac"tion*a*ry, a. Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
Reactionary
Reactionary Re*ac"tion*a*ry, n.; pl. Reactionaries. One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

Meaning of Reactionary from wikipedia

- In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent...
- Reactionary feminism is a conservative variant of feminism that emphasizes traditional gender roles, heteronormativity, and the family as solutions to...
- Reactionary modernism is a term first coined by Jeffrey Herf in the 1980s to describe the mixture of "great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection...
- Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionary philosophical and political...
- anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx). In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote...
- The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin is a 2011 book written by political theorist Corey Robin. It argues that conservatism...
- either libertarian or authoritarian, populist or elitist, progressive or reactionary, moderate or extreme. Scholars have tried to define conservatism as a...
- The Reactionaries were an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, in 1978. The band's continual members were lead vocalist...
- Special Combat Aggressive Reactionary Systems (SCARS) is an American combat fighting system created by Jerry L. Peterson. SCARS is based on sciences of...
- Mary Harrington is a British journalist. She coined the term reactionary feminism and examined it in her 2023 book Feminism Against Progress. As a child...