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Provincialism
Provincialism meaning
The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. | A word or locution characteristic of a region or district. | Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
Synonyms of Provincialism
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Cosmopolitanism is the antidote to the disease of provincialism.
HBO’s tepid satire about the provincialism of U.S. liberals doesn’t play well in a year as catastrophic as 2020.
The author of the Try Harder PDX allowed the to interview them via email about their reasons behind the project and their ideas on the binding ties of provincialism, how to energize local artists, and why Portland needs to try harder.
This internationalist programme stands in sharp contrast to the provincialism of the present leaders of the labour movement.
From 1917 he wrote music reviews for The New Age under the pen name William Atheling, and weekly pieces for The Egoist and The Little Review – many of the latter directed against provincialism and ignorance.