regionalism
nounEtymology
From regional + -ism.
- derived from regiōnālis
- borrowed from régional
Definitions
Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional…
The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
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Regional character, local color.
- Director Deitch has filled the sountrack with country music classics […] and this adds to the regionalism of the film as well as to the feeling which buoys the movie up from simplistic formula to romantic reverie.
The neighborhood
- synonymprovincialism
- neighborregionalist
- neighborregionism
- neighborAmericanism
- neighborAustralianism
- neighborBriticism
- neighborBritishism
- neighborCanadianism
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for regionalism. 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