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A limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
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parochialism
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Word definitions for parochialism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"limited and narrow character or tendency," 1847, from parochial + -ism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Parochialism is the state of mind, whereby one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context. More generally, it consists of being narrow in scope. In that respect, it is a synonym of "provincialism". It may, particularly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being parochial; especially: selfish pettiness or narrowness (as of interests, opinions, or views).
Usage examples of parochialism.
Still, interspersed between its superstitions and amulets, demons and dybbuks, Hasidism provided broad cosmic perspectives for the wretched ghetto dweller, and endowed him with a sanctity that reached deeply beyond his ragged parochialism and penetrated his soul.
Kafka, however unmistakable the ethnic source of his "liveliness" and alienation, avoided Jewish parochialism, and his allegories of pained awareness take upon themselves the entire European -- that is to say, predominantly Christian -- malaise.
She didn't even waste the mental effort it would have required to wonder if the Honorable Legislative Assemblywoman had forgotten the genocidal Rigelians and the fanatical Thebans, both of which races had been all too capable of building spaceships and neither of which had subscribed to the philosophy the Honorable Legislative Assemblywoman, with a parochialism fit to shame a medieval peasant, assumed must be universal.