Provincialism

n.

1.

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.

Noun	1.	provincialism - a lack of sophistication
	2.	provincialism - a partiality for some particular place Synonyms: sectionalism, localism

Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, agrarianism, authoritarianism, benightedness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, boorishness, bucolicism, bundle of isoglosses, churlishness, class dialect, closed mind, cramped ideas, dialect, dialect atlas, dialect dictionary, fanaticism, 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, naivety, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, odium theologicum, parochialism, pastorality, patois, 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, yokelism

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