Provincialism Synonyms

prə-vĭnshə-lĭzəm
Dialect
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. localism
  2. vernacular
  3. sectionalism
  4. idiosyncrasy
  5. bucolicism
  6. pastorality
  7. ruralism
Narrow-mindedness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bias
  2. intolerance
  3. xenophobia

Words Related to Provincialism

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Provincialism Sentence Examples

  • Politics, cleared of the cross-issues of provincialism and Maori warfare, took the usual shape of a struggle between wealth and radicalism.

  • In others it encourages a truculent provincialism which takes a perverse pride in stressing the peculiarity and complexities of our conflict.

  • Her language, however, shows little trace of Anglo-Norman provincialism.

  • Belgian writers were commonly charged with provincialism, but the prejudice against them has been destroyed by the brilliant writers of 1870-1880.

  • Burke and Goldsmith, coming later, though they might not call themselves Englishmen, were not less free from provincialism.

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