insularity

noun

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as in parochialism

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  1. parochialism
  2. provincialism
  3. conservatism
Noun
  • British parochialism finds echoes on the other side of the Channel, where European leaders, as a group, failed to sell the European way of life to their people.
    — Camille Pecastaing, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2016
  • But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of parochialism
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  • This was the mid-nineteen-sixties, when Canada was coming out of that provincialism and into its own.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Such provincialism results in little or no coordination between ministries and undermines the capacity for broad strategic planning and implementation -- both of which are necessary to solve the country’s infrastructure and services deficits.
    — Raad Alkadiri, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2011
Definition of provincialism
Noun
  • Congressman and now House Speaker Johnson has listed seven core principles of conservatism including individual freedom, peace through strength, and human dignity.
    — Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Karpov’s conservatism and Kasparov’s radical nature were both present in their chess.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
Definition of conservatism
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