Provincialism

Definition:

  • (n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.

Compare provincialism with other words:

provincialism vs. provincialist

nationalism vs. provincialism

provincialism vs. regionalism

locution vs. provincialism

provincial vs. provincialism

provincialism vs. sophistication