'Provincialism' definitions:
Definition of 'provincialism'
From: WordNet
noun
A lack of sophistication
noun
A partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism]
Definition of 'Provincialism'
From: GCIDE
- Provincialism \Pro*vin"cial*ism\, n. [Cf. F. provincialisme.] A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'provincialism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acadian,
- agrarianism,
- Anglo-Indian,
- authoritarianism,
- benightedness,
- bigotry,
- blind side,
- blind spot,
- blinders,
- boorishness,
- Brooklynese,
- bucolicism,
- bundle of isoglosses,
- Cajun,
- Canadian French,
- churlishness,
- class dialect,
- closed mind,
- Cockney,
- cramped ideas,
- dialect,
- dialect atlas,
- dialect dictionary,
- fanaticism,
- French Canadian,
- Gullah,
- hideboundness,
- idiom,
- illiberality,
- inexperience,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- insularism,
- insularity,
- inurbanity,
- isogloss,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic community,
- linguistic island,
- little-mindedness,
- littleness,
- local dialect,
- localism,
- mean mind,
- meanness,
- Midland,
- Midland dialect,
- naivety,
- narrow sympathies,
- narrow views,
- narrow-mindedness,
- narrowness,
- nearsightedness,
- New England dialect,
- odium theologicum,
- parochialism,
- pastorality,
- patois,
- Pennsylvania Dutch,
- pettiness,
- petty mind,
- provinciality,
- purblindness,
- regional accent,
- regionalism,
- ruralism,
- rusticity,
- shortsightedness,
- shut mind,
- simplicity,
- smallness,
- speech community,
- straitlacedness,
- stuffiness,
- subdialect,
- uncatholicity,
- uncultivation,
- unrefinement,
- unsophisticatedness,
- unspoiledness,
- Yankee,
- yokelism,
- Yorkshire