The attitudes, beliefs, or practices characteristic of fogies; old-fashioned thinking or conservative ideology treated as a coherent system or ideology.
Derived from 'fogy' with the suffix '-ism' (from Greek '-ismos'), which creates nouns expressing a system of beliefs, practices, or characteristics. Common in 19th-century English for mocking ideologies.
By calling it 'fogyism,' Victorian progressives turned old-fashionedness into a full ideology like socialism or liberalism—it's rhetorical genius that made conservatism sound as rigid and systematic as a political movement!
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