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Insularity

Insularity Meaning & Definition
Insularity Definition And Meaning

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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