Parochialism

3 definitions found

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

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  parochialism
       n : a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a
           local parish

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

  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