parochialism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
parochialism
    n 1: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a
         local parish
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parochialism \Pa*ro"chi*al*ism\, n.
   The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a
   system of management peculiar to parishes.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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