parochialism

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Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
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pa=ro=chi=al=ism

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun parochialism has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

parochialismn. 
     The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

parochialism

Jim Crow, 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, know-nothingism, little-mindedness, littleness, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, odium theologicum, out-group, outcast, 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

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