provinciality
- noun
- /prəˌvɪnʃiˈælɪti/
:
provincialidad
- His provinciality became evident when he dismissed trends happening in the city as irrelevant to his rural life.
Examples
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Not only is iconoclasm poorly understood and greatly overestimated, it is also frequently viewed with suspicion, and sometimes as proof of Muslim provinciality or even backwardness (Flood 2002).
Academic text (2008) -
He saves us from the "provinciality of the present" by reminding us that "the Bible was not written to us or for us, but within and for ancient communities."
Blog text (4) -
He inveighed against Reaganomics and the narrow provinciality of the 'me' decade.
Fiction book (1998) -
A colonial project and American locations thus created new social, political, and agricultural calendars, with seasons and schedules that sometimes reminded colonists of their provinciality.
Academic text (2007) -
Ironically, critical huzzahs to the supposed diversity of American fiction end up condoning timidity and staleness while perpetuating cultural provinciality.
Fiction book (2000) -
On one level, this passage is a little joke on the provinciality of New Yorkers, much like Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoon of the contracted world west of the Hudson, as seen from Manhattan.
Academic text (2000) -
A major reason for such provinciality is the pervasive belief that the past is a benighted world of superstition and prejudice, or, less threatening, a world of fantasy and romance; in either case, no proper guide for an emancipated modern age.
Academic text (2005) -
This post-cultural quality of American life was envisioned as long ago as the eighteenth century, when universalism was a widely shared ideal and Enlightenment thinkers dismissed any local forces that stood in their way as mere provinciality.
Academic text (1996) -
Living in a small town for so long, she developed a certain provinciality that limited her understanding of the wider world.
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The author's critique highlighted the provinciality of the characters who could only see issues from their local perspective.
Synonyms
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Being separate from other places and having a narrow view of the world
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A narrow way of thinking that focuses on local issues
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A strong focus on local customs and a dislike of outside ideas
A narrow way of thinking that focuses only on a small group
A way of thinking that only cares about local matters and ignores wider issues
A strong loyalty to one region that harms the rest of the country
Antonyms
How Narrow-Minded
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
provinciality = provincial (semi-transparent) = province + ial + ity
Forming an abstract noun from the adjective 'provincial' with the productive suffix '-ity' is a regular and predictable derivation.
Etymology
Provinciality comes from the word province, which originally meant a 'region' or 'area of rule' and is the same root as provincial. So, provinciality means a narrow, local way of thinking that looks only from a small regional view.