Provincialism synonyms

prə-vĭn'shə-lĭz'əm

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localism
A local linguistic feature.
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idiosyncrasy
An individual reaction to a drug, food, etc. that is different from the reaction of most people
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bias
This curve or tendency to curve
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intolerance
(Uncountable) The state of being intolerant.
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xenophobia
Xenophobia is defined as an irrational fear of foreigners or of anything foreign.
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dialect (related)
A language considered as part of a larger family of languages or a linguistic branch. Not in scientific use:
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inclination (related)
The act of inclining or the state of being inclined; a bend or tilt:
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prejudice (related)
Detriment or harm caused to a person, especially in a legal case:
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sectionalism
Narrow-minded concern for or devotion to the interests of one section of a country; sectional spirit, bias, etc.
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bucolicism
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pastorality
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ruralism
Rural life
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insularity (related)
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anti-intellectualism (related)
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snobbishness (related)
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parochialism (related)
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intellectualism (related)
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vernacular
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
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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.

  • He was the author of The Religious Aspects of Philosophy (1885); California (1886, in the American Commonwealth Series) The Feud of Oakfield Creek (1887, a novel); The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (1892); The Conception of God (1895); Studies of Good and Evil (1898); The World and the Individual (2 vols., 1900-1, Gifford Lectures at the university of Aberdeen); The Conception of Immortality (1900); Outlines of Psychology (1903); Herbert Spencer: An Estimate and Review (1904); The Philosophy of Loyalty (1908); Race Questions, Provincialism and Other American Problems (1908);' William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life (1911); Bross Lectures on the Sources of Religious Insight (1912); The Problem of Christianity (2 vols., 1913, lectures before Manchester College, Oxford); War and Insurance (1914); The Hope of the Great Community (1916, war addresses) and the posthumously published Lectures on Modern Idealism (1919).

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