About The Word Insularity
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Insularity
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What's The Definition Of Insularity?
[n] the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Insularity: detachment | insularism | insulation Related Terms | Find terms related to Insularity: ait | alien | apartheid | archipelago | atoll | authoritarianism | bar | bigotry | blind side | blind spot | blinders | cay | closed mind | color bar | continental island | coral head | coral island | coral reef | cramped ideas | division | ethnocentrism | exclusiveness | fanaticism | foreigner | hideboundness | holm | illiberality | insularism | insulation | island | island group | islandology | isle | islet | isolation | Jim Crow | key | know-nothingism | little-mindedness | littleness | mean mind | meanness | narrow sympathies | narrow views | narrow-mindedness | narrowness | nearsightedness | oceanic island | odium theologicum | outcast | out-group | outsider | parochialism | persona non grata | pettiness | petty mind | provincialism | purblindness | quarantine | race hatred | racial segregation | reef | sandbank | sandbar | seclusion | segregation | separation | shortsightedness | shut mind | smallness | snobbishness | straitlacedness | stranger | stuffiness | tightness | uncatholicity | xenophobia See Also | isolation Insularity In Webster's Dictionary \In`su*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insularit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being an island or consisting of
islands; insulation.
The insularity of Britain was first shown by
Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. --Pinkerton.
2. Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice;
exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the
aristocracy.
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