• Aversion to slang, say
• Chaste pursuit
• Early 20th-century art movement
• Insistence on chasteness
• Insistence on precise standards
• Insistence on traditional correctness
• Not spoiling folk with electricity, e.g.
• Observance of correctness
• Pedant's thinking
• Rigid adherence
• Stickler's belief
• Stickler's creed
• Straight quality
• Strict adherence to rules
• Strict interpretation
• Strict linguistic correctness
• Strict use of language, etc.
• William Safire quality
1) пуризм; строгость нравов (иногда показная);
2) борьба за сохранение языка в неизменном виде, против включения в него новых слов.
пуризм