-chəˌlizəm noun
( -s )
1. : a dialectal or local word, phrase, or idiom
answers come back in … slang, provincialisms, profanity — S.L.Payne
2. : the quality or state of being provincial: as
a. : exclusive attachment to one's own province, region, or country
tourists shedding their provincialism
specifically : devotion to provincial autonomy
went back to the pub to argue provincialism — Sunday Express (Johannesburg) South Africa
b. : indifference to what is alien, unfamiliar, or diverse : narrowness or limitation (as in interests, views, or thought) — contrasted with cosmopolitanism
intellectual provincialism
relation between temporal … cultural or national provincialism — Journal of Philosophy
a newspaper steeped in biased provincialism — Herbert Brucker