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localism

noun
/ˈloʊkəlɪzəm/US/ˈləʊkəlɪzəm/UK

Etymology

From local + -ism.

  1. derived from locus — “a place”
  2. derived from local
  3. derived from locālis — “belonging to a place”
  4. inherited from local
  5. suffixed as localism — “local + ism”

Definitions

  1. Attachment to a particular local place

    Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena.

    • Localism may strengthen not just the selfless (eg, people who want to build a village hall) but also the selfish (who want to stop any new building in their backyard).
    • these faux-traditional shops, harking back to an era of localism and pretty clockwork high streets, can help cleave a neighbourhood in two, making very clear the difference in means of those who live nearby.

  2. A linguistic feature that is unique to a locality.

    • These documents contain occasional localism, typically references to other operating systems.

  3. The belief that language functions are localized to various parts of the brain.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An approach to understanding expressions in terms of position and movement (sometimes…

      An approach to understanding expressions in terms of position and movement (sometimes abstract, e.g. one who is hungry is in a notional "space" of hunger).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for localism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA