'Insularity' definitions:
Definition of 'insularity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment]
Definition of 'Insularity'
From: GCIDE
- Insularity \In`su*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insularit['e].] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation. [1913 Webster]
- The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. --Pinkerton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insularity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- 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