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Parochialism

Parochialism Meaning & Definition
Parochialism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Parochialism?

[n] a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish

Synonyms | Synonyms for Parochialism:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Parochialism: alien | apartheid | authoritarianism | bigotry | blind side | blind spot | blinders | closed mind | color bar | cramped ideas | division | ethnocentrism | exclusiveness | fanaticism | foreigner | hideboundness | illiberality | insularism | insularity | insulation | isolation | Jim Crow | know-nothingism | little-mindedness | littleness | mean mind | meanness | narrow sympathies | narrow views | narrow-mindedness | narrowness | nearsightedness | odium theologicum | outcast | out-group | outsider | persona non grata | pettiness | petty mind | provincialism | purblindness | quarantine | race hatred | racial segregation | seclusion | segregation | separation | shortsightedness | shut mind | smallness | snobbishness | straitlacedness | stranger | stuffiness | tightness | uncatholicity | xenophobia

See Also | narrow-mindedness

Parochialism In Webster's Dictionary

\Pa*ro"chi*al*ism\, n. The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

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