provincialism in English

noun
1
the way of life or mode of thought characteristic of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
I think there is a real need to get away from all this regional provincialism - especially in a country where literature itself is so much at risk.
2
concern for one's own area or region at the expense of national or supranational unity.
3
a word or phrase peculiar to a local area.
In a disastrous miscalculation, the producers carefully put back all the lame, dated gags and Manhattan provincialisms that dotted the original production.
4
the degree to which plant or animal communities are restricted to particular areas.
The pattern of Ashgill brachiopod provincialism can be traced back to the early Caradoc (Nemagraptus gracilis Biozone) during the major global sea level rise and marine transgression.
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2. During the Albian very uniform, world-wide foraminiferal faunas without a marked provincialism are obvious.

3. Its workforce labors round the clock and its inventiveness, energy, and diversity counter provincialism with scorn.

4. He jeered at American sham, pretension, provincialism, and prudery, and he ridiculed the nation’s organized religion, business, and middle class (or ‘Booboisie’).

5. 21 In that early New Yorker essay, Gordimer wrote of growing up in the "smug suet of white provincialism" in a small mining town outside Johannesburg.

6. The provincialism of his native city was odious to him. He never ceased to rail against the bigotry without religion, aestheticism without culture, and philosophy without common sense, which he found dominant on the banks of the Spree.

7. • To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule: a book that Belabors the provincialism of his contemporaries • To explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary: He kept belaboring the point long after we had agreed More crossword answers.