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Parochialism   /pərˈoʊkiəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Parochialism

noun
1.
A limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish.





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"Parochialism" Quotes from Famous Books



... planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. And it watches from its splendid parochialism, possibly with a smile of amusement, motor-car civilization going its triumphant way, outstripping time, consuming space, seeing all and seeing nothing, roaring on at last to the capture of the solar system, only to find the sun ...
— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Parochialism" :   narrow-mindedness, narrowness


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