provincialism

Noun

Meaning

A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

localism regionalism sectionalism federalism discrimination bias dialect accent bent slang vernacular prejudice injustice brutality idiom
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Antonyms

cultivation charity equity detachment accomplishment benevolence
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Hypernyms

partisanship partiality narrowness narrow-mindedness

Examples

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity. Dana Gioia

The historic fate of one growth industry after another has been its suicidal product provincialism. Theodore Levitt

It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. Molly Ivins

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. Barry Unsworth

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. . . . To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. Oscar Wilde

Close letter words and terms

provincialate provincialisation provincialise provincialist provinciality provincialization