Traditionalism is the belief that old ways are worth keeping — that how things have been done should carry weight when we decide how to do them now. It is a name for a position, an attitude you could argue for or against. Notice this is not the same as simply having traditions. A family that eats together at New Year has a tradition. Traditionalism is one step up: it is holding the view that keeping such things matters, and often that changing them is a loss. You can practise a tradition without any traditionalism at all — you just do it because it is nice. The word turns up most in writing about religion, politics, art, and education. "The traditionalism of the church" means the church's tendency to hold to the old form. In music or architecture, traditionalism means working in the old style on purpose while other people try new things. It is a formal, written word. In speech people say "he's very traditional" or "they're old-fashioned" instead. Whether it sounds good or bad depends entirely on who is speaking. To one writer it means respect and depth; to another it means being stuck. The word itself does not decide — though actually, because -ism words are often used by people criticising the thing, traditionalism a little more often appears in an argument against it than for it.

傳統主義。學術和評論文章的用詞，不是日常對話會冒出來的字；台灣學生講「他很傳統」用 traditional 就好，寫論文談立場才用 traditionalism。