Because of the associations with the word, I try to avoid using “charedi” to describe any hashkafos. A chossid is a “blanker chossid” (or rebbe for that matter). A person who believes that full time learning is the ideal and attempts to follow it as long as possible would be “yeshivish.” A person who believes that there is a positive inyan to follow Eastern European Jewish culture is “heimish” etc. Charedi is a purely political distinction and does not denote anything good.
