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What is the noun for parochiality?

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parochiality
  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being parochial.
  2. (countable) Something parochial; a behaviour that is specific to a small locality.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sawford recognises that the pressure to put Kettering first risks parochiality.”
      “Presenter Mairead McGuinness, an agricultural journalist, mixed it all up with that unique RTE brand of parochiality.”
      “Alongside this parochiality we find a taste for the distant and exotic.”
parochialism
  1. The quality or state of being parochial; especially: selfish pettiness or narrowness (as of interests, opinions, or views).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Such narrow-minded blinkered parochialism can only leave these campaigners looking even more desperate.”
      “I mean, if this were Wales say, or Scotland, I dare say I could rabbit away about small-minded, provincial parochialism.”
      “They rejected isolationism and nationalist parochialism and defended a conception of universal human values.”
parochialist
  1. One who exhibits parochialism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In Bulgaria, Detchko Uzunov might be a provincialist or a parochialist, but he surely was not a regionalist.”
      “I never set out to be a parochialist, and I have had some success writing for wider audiences.”
parochialists
  1. plural of parochialist
parochialisms
parochialities
  1. plural of parochiality
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