insularity

insularity
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Insularity — In su*lar i*ty, n. [Cf. F. insularit[ e].] [1913 Webster] 1. 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Insularity — reflects a wide range of physical and emotional meanings in accordance with a person or place:* For a place, it relates to an island or any physically isolated place distant and inaccessible without sufficient means of transport. For example,… …   Wikipedia

  • insularity — (n.) 1755, narrowness of feelings, from INSULAR (Cf. insular) + ITY (Cf. ity). Literal sense attested from 1790 …   Etymology dictionary

  • insularity — insular ► ADJECTIVE 1) isolated from outside influences, and often narrow minded as a result. 2) relating to or from an island. DERIVATIVES insularity noun. ORIGIN Latin insularis, from insula island …   English terms dictionary

  • insularity — noun see insular …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • insularity — See insularism. * * * …   Universalium

  • insularity — noun The quality or property of being insular …   Wiktionary

  • insularity — in·su·lar·i·ty || ‚ɪnsÉ™ lærÉ™tɪ / sjÊŠ l n. state of being an island; state of living on or being located on an island; narrowness of mind, provinciality; isolation …   English contemporary dictionary

  • insularity — in·su·lar·i·ty …   English syllables

  • insularity — See: insular …   English dictionary

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