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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--standpatism This week's theme: words from games and sports. standpatism or standpattism (STAND-PAT-iz-uhm) noun The practice of refusing to consider change in one's beliefs and opinions, especially in politics. [The term has its origin in the game of poker. It stems from stand pat, to play one's hand as it's dealt, without drawing other cards.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Compromise and common sense? Self-righteous standpatism and pigheadedness? We ought to know which has the upper hand after the next three days." Ray Fitzgerald; Sports; Boston Globe; May 6, 1980. X-Bonus There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen, musician (1934- )

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