sectionalism

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Noun
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sec=tion=al=ism

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sectionalism has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sectionalismn. 
     A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sectionalism

autarky, bimetallism, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness, cliquishness, cliquism, denominationalism, economic self-sufficiency, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity, exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, localism, managed currency, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party line, party principle, party spirit, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, sectarianism

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