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All provincialism synonyms

pro·vin·cial·ism
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noun provincialism

  • barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
  • dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
  • localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
  • racialism — racism.
  • narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
  • malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
  • dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
  • catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
  • bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
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