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Word | Provincialism |
a partiality for some particular place / a lack of sophistication / A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis / the way of life or mode of thought characteristic of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded., | |
Usage | ⇒ One should not hesitate to reveal his provincialism ⇒ I think there is a real need to get away from all this regional provincialism - especially in a country where literature itself is so much at risk. |
Synonyms | localism, dialect, narrowness, patois, idiom, parochialism, regionalism, sectionalism, idiosyncrasy, intolerance, provinciality, vernacular, bent, bigotry, illiberality, insularism, narrow-mindedness, prejudice, barbarism, benightedness, |
Antonyms | accomplishment, cultivation, polish, refinement, |
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