Insularity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insularity \In`su*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insularit['e].]
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     1. The state or quality of being an island or consisting of
        islands; insulation.
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              The insularity of Britain was first shown by
              Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. --Pinkerton.
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     2. Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice;
        exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the
        aristocracy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insularity
       n : the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of
           England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: {insulation},
            {insularism}, {detachment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "insularity":
     Jim Crow, ait, alien, apartheid, archipelago, atoll,
     authoritarianism, bar, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders,
     cay, closed mind, color bar, continental island, coral head,
     coral island, coral reef, cramped ideas, division, ethnocentrism,
     exclusiveness, fanaticism, foreigner, hideboundness, holm,
     illiberality, insularism, insulation, island, island group,
     islandology, isle, islet, isolation, key, know-nothingism,
     little-mindedness, littleness, mean mind, meanness,
     narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness,
     nearsightedness, oceanic island, odium theologicum, out-group,
     outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, pettiness,
     petty mind, provincialism, purblindness, quarantine, race hatred,
     racial segregation, reef, sandbank, sandbar, seclusion,
     segregation, separation, shortsightedness, shut mind, smallness,
     snobbishness, straitlacedness, stranger, stuffiness, tightness,
     uncatholicity, xenophobia