All counterrevolution synonyms

noun counterrevolution

• backlash — A backlash against a tendency or recent development in society or politics, is a sudden, strong reaction against it.
• right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
• relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
• regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
• withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
• retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
• retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
• right wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
• status quo — the existing state or condition.
• toryism — the act or fact of being a Tory.
• backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.