Meaning of INSULARITY
| Pronunciation: | | `insu'laritee
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| | Definition: | | [n] the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" |
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| | Synonyms: | | detachment, insularism, insulation |
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| | See Also: | | isolation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`su*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insularit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being an island or consisting of
islands; insulation.
The insularity of Britain was first shown by
Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. --Pinkerton.
2. Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice;
exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the
aristocracy.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Jim Crow, key, know-nothingism, little-mindedness, littleness, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, oceanic island, odium theologicum, outcast, out-group, 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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