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parochialism
CIDE DICTIONARY
parochialism, n.
The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
parochialism
Jim Crow, alien, apartheid, authoritarianism, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, closed mind, color bar, cramped ideas, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fanaticism, foreigner, hideboundness, illiberality, insularism, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, little-mindedness, littleness, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, odium theologicum, out-group, outcast, outsider, persona non grata, pettiness, petty mind, provincialism, purblindness, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, seclusion, segregation, separation, shortsightedness, shut mind, smallness, snobbishness, straitlacedness, stranger, stuffiness, tightness, uncatholicity, xenophobiaFor further exploring for "parochialism" in Webster Dictionary Online