insularity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=su=lar=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

insularity, n. [Cf. F. insularité.].

•  The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.  [1913 Webster]

  "The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it."  [1913 Webster]
•  Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

insularity

Jim Crow, ait, alien, apartheid, archipelago, atoll, authoritarianism, bar, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, cay, closed mind, color bar, continental island, coral head, coral island, coral reef, cramped ideas, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fanaticism, foreigner, hideboundness, holm, illiberality, insularism, insulation, island, island group, islandology, isle, islet, isolation, key, know-nothingism, little-mindedness, littleness, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, oceanic island, odium theologicum, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, pettiness, petty mind, provincialism, purblindness, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, reef, sandbank, sandbar, seclusion, segregation, separation, shortsightedness, shut mind, smallness, snobbishness, straitlacedness, stranger, stuffiness, tightness, uncatholicity, xenophobia

ROGET THESAURUS

insularity

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.